[Gloucs] Mandrake 9.1 and XFree86 4.3.0

[Dave Addison]

In message <200310301102.06988.sean at eon.demon.co.uk>, Sean Keane 
<sean at eon.demon.co.uk> writes
>On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 10:49, bjh poked randomly at a keyboard and came up
>with:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Can anyone help with this question please from Noel who is a member of
>> the Hereford LUG - thanks:
>>
>>
>> "Hello,
>>
>> I have Mandrake 9.1 and on the 1st cd is XFree86 4.3.0
>>
>> It is in three files with the ending .rpm.  This is the first one.
>>
>> XFree86-static-libs-4.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
>>
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to load these up onto a *Windows system* to get a
>> working X window there.
>>
>
>Can't be done...
>He needs a windows executable ... such as XWin or something, or what's the
>name of that emulator ... CygWin might be able to do it, but it would be
>very slow!
>
Cygwin works well. The install of XFree86 is automated, unfortunately 
starting it up isn't. IIRC you have to start up a cygwin bash shell and 
run "/usr/X11/bin/startx -- --broadcast" to find an XDMCP server on the 
network. Once it's running though, there's nothing wrong with it
-- 
Dave Addison
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