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I am doing a minimalist install of Mandrake 9 on my laptop thinking that I could set up X-Free 86 on my laptop. I put all my source RPMs on my hard disk so I could later unpack them. I have XFree86 4.2.1 and XFree86-Compatible 3.3.6-28 RPMs. After going "rpm -i xfreerpm (xfreerpm is the RPM file), it'd process a minute then it'd give me another prompt. Trying xf86config and startx both are not executeable. What do I do to make it work? Did I not do something I was supposed to (and I think that's the case)? Show me some materials.
I did a minimalist install so I have no XF-Drake. No kernel shutdown or restart functions neither (but that's not an issue for this discussion). I UnRPM'ed X-Free 86 and my X-Free 86 Compatible RPMs but I have no xf86config or startx commands. I need to know what to do from here. www.xfree86.org seems to have nothing about installing X-Free 86, neither does the Linux Documentation Project (or at least where I looked, I have little time and couldn't search it super-thuroughly). They should have this stuff. Can you guys help me find it?
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