Subject: Mac II, NetBSD 1.2, trouble starting X
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Nathan Raymond <xray@cs.brandeis.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/09/1997 15:10:17
Hi, I just installed NetBSD yesterday on my Mac II, it runs fine, I
downloaded X11R6, put that on with the installer, logged in as root, added
/usr/X11R6/bin/ to my path environment variable, tried to startx and got
this error:

/usr/libexec/ld.so: xinit: libXext.so.6.1: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong?

And a few other questions:

I want to set up this Mac II for X software development... what else (if
anything) do I need?

The Mac II has an Asante NuBus ethernet card, I have a Quadra 630 without
ethernet that I will keep running the MacOS on and which I use to connect
to the internet via modem PPP.  If I get a commslot ethernet card, could I
set up X-sessions from the Mac II to the Quadra 630, or do I need more
hardware?  Internet connectivity for NetBSD isn't essential, but would be a
nice bonus.  How about LocalTalk?  Any support for that in NetBSD (I doubt
it)?  How about just setting up a text terminal via serial ports, that'll
work in a pinch, eh?

What is the best way to get tar.gz files that I've downloaded on my Q630 to
NetBSD on my Mac II?

Thanks in advance for any info!

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Nathan Raymond
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