5 Installing the System

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The binary distribution is composed of a number of zip archives which are the executables, servers, fonts, libraries, include files, man pages, and config files. The full distribution requires about 40-55MB of disk space.

All archives of this alpha version are packed with the info-zip utility, which is available under the name UNZ512X2.EXE from many OS/2 archives. Please obtain a native OS/2 version of this unpacker. DOS PKUNZIP does not work, because it cannot unpack long file names and extended attributes.

At this moment, the distribution covers only the ``core'' distribution which somewhat reduces the usability. Some of the more interesting clients from the ``contrib'' area will be made available in the future.

The contents of the packages are:

REQUIRED:

312Dbase

A special device driver and the SuperProbe program

312Ddoc

READMEs and XFree86 specific man pages.

312Dbin

all of the executable X client applications and shared libs

312Dfnts

the misc and 75dpi fonts

312Dlib

data files needed at runtime

emxrt

Runtime libraries of EMX

Choose at least one of the following to match your hardware:

312D8514

the X server for IBM 8514/A and compatible boards

312DAGX

the X server for AGX boards

312DI128

the X server for #9 Imagination 128 boards

312DMa32

the X server for ATI Mach32 graphics boards

312DMa64

the X server for ATI Mach64 graphics boards

312DMa8

the X server for ATI Mach8 graphics boards

312DMono

the Monochrome X Server

312DP9K

the X server for P9000 based boards

312DS3

the X server for S3 based boards

312DSvga

the 8-bit pseudo-color X server for Super VGA cards

312Dvg16

the 4-bit pseudo-color X server for VGA & SVGA cards.

312Dw32

the X server for et4000w32 based boards

OPTIONAL:

312Dman

pre-formatted man pages for the X11 interface and clients

312Df100

100dpi fonts

312Dfscl

Speedo and Type1 fonts

312Dfnon

Japanese, Chinese and other fonts

312Dfcyr

Cyrillic fonts

312Dfsrv

the font server with man pages.

312Dprog

the X11 header files and programmer's utilities for compiling other X applications

312Dpex

PEX fonts and libraries required for PEX applications

312Dnest

the Xnest X server

In order to save space on your disk and reduce net bandwidth, choose the software to obtain carefully. Each X server is an archive of about 1.4MB and occupies 2.5MB on the disk. You won't normally need more than the single Xserver tailored to your video card.

If it is your first time install, get the 312Dbase archive before any of the other packages. This package contains a driver and a test program, which analyzes your video hardware. If this program fails or reports an incompatible hardware, it makes no sense to obtain the other packages in the hope that they would magically work.

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