Aros/Platforms/Installing on *nix
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[edit] AROS/i386-linux and AROS/i386-freebsd
[edit] Requirements
To run AROS/i386-linux or AROS/i386-freebsd you will need the following:
* A working FreeBSD or Linux installation (doesn't really matter which
distribution you run, as long as it's relatively recent).
* A configured and working X server (for example XFree86).
That's it.
[edit] Extracting
Since AROS/i386-linux and AROS/i386-freebsd are hosted flavors of AROS, installation is simple. Simply get the appropriate archives for your platform from the download page and extract them where you want them:
> tar -vxjf AROS-<version>-i386-<platform>-system.tar.bz2
If you downloaded the contrib archive, you may want to extract it too:
> tar -vxjf AROS-<version>-i386-all-contrib.tar.bz2
[edit] Running
After having extracted all files you can launch AROS like this:
> cd AROS > ./aros
Note
If you are running XFree86 4.0 or later, you might notice that the windows containing AROS screens do not refresh properly (for example when a different window passes over them). This is due to the fact that AROS uses the "backingstore" functionality of X, which is turned off by default in XFree86 4.0 and later. If you are starting X with the startx command, you can enable it again by passing the +bs option:
> startx -- +bs
If you start X by some other means (eg. with XDM), you can instead add the following line to the device section of your graphics card in the X configuration file (commonly named /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4):
Option "backingstore"
A complete device section might then look like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox G450"
Driver "mga"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "backingstore"
EndSection
