I installed BOCHS on my mac, and I think it absolutely sucks.
When I open the terminal, the bochs config panel automatically opens. If I delete the bochs files, it gives a message saying blahblahblah directory not found everytime I open a new Terminal window.
So my question is, how do I COMPLETELY remove all the files? Maybe by editing the .cshrc file?
The darn thing comes up automatically..
Last login: Wed Aug 27 18:23:02 on ttyp1
cd /Users/tahasyed/Desktop/Bochs-2.0.2/;/Users/tahWelcome to Darwin!
asyed/Desktop/Bochs-2.0.2/bochs.app/Contents/MacOS/bochs
[Taha-Syeds-Computer:~] tahasyed% cd /Users/tahasyed/Desktop/Bochs-2.0.2/;/Users/tahasyed/Desktop/Bochs-2.0.2/bochs.app/Contents/MacOS/bochs
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Bochs x86 Emulator 2.0.2
January 21, 2003
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00000000000i[ ] fixing default bxshare location ...
00000000000i[ ] now my BXSHARE is /Users/tahasyed/Desktop/Bochs-2.0.2
00000000000i[ ] reading configuration from bochsrc.txt
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Bochs Configuration: Main Menu
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This is the Bochs Configuration Interface, where you can describe the
machine that you want to simulate. Bochs has already searched for a
configuration file (typically called bochsrc.txt) and loaded it if it
could be found. When you are satisfied with the configuration, go
ahead and start the simulation.
You can also start bochs with the -q option to skip these menus.
1. Restore factory default configuration
2. Read options from...
3. Edit options
4. Save options to...
5. Begin simulation
6. Quit now
Please choose one: [5]
and there's nothing in the cshrc file.. 
Have you tried choosing option #1?
Try changing your default shell to BASH, and see if it comes up. If it doesnt, then you know its in a tcsh config file.
Im kind of stumped. Thats wierd. Have you looked at the docs on the Bochs website?
Where did you get the file from? FINK? If you did, remove Bochs via APT.
its there if I use bash too.
the darn bochs documentation doesn't say anything about uninstalling.. :mad:
I got the file from sourceforge.net It was a standard dmg file, from which I ran a script.
what is the technique for 'uninstalling' programs in UNIX?
edit: I just noticed something interesting. When I type ctrl+C to get of the bochs panel, the default path it shows in the tcsh shell is not ~ or /. It is ~/Desktop/Bochs-2.0.2
Is there a way to define/change where the Terminal starts up?
there has to be something in the profile check /etc/profile and see if there is any call to an external file that may load this thing. If you know the command that starts it you can also grep for it in the . files i.e: "grep Bochs .??*" a more "radical" aproach would be to delete the executable for Bochs, but that will leave non neccesary and unused files all over your system.
Originally posted by Telmo@Aug 28 2003, 12:10 PMthere has to be something in the profile check /etc/profile and see if there is any call to an external file that may load this thing. If you know the command that starts it you can also grep for it in the . files i.e: "grep Bochs .??*" a more "radical" aproach would be to delete the executable for Bochs, but that will leave non neccesary and unused files all over your system.
well, I pico'ed /etc/profile and here's the content of the file:
# System-wide .profile for sh(1)
PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
export PATH
Maybe that could help you find out the source of the thing?
edit: when I do the grep thing, I get
grep: no match
:(
Then it changed the path of your HOME directory.
do:
echo $HOME
that will tell you what your HOME variable is set to.
Im not sure how you change it in tcsh though, I only really use BASH.
You should switch to BASH anyway, its better. Its going to be the default in Panther too.
For uninstalling things, you can either just delete the files by hand, or use a package manager (like DPKG for debian) or do "make uninstall" if you compiled from source.
echo $HOME
I get Users/Tahasyed, which is right..
grep -R bochs /etc
I get
grep: invalid option -- R
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
When I do the same with a small 'r',
grep -r bochs /etc
I get nothing..
edit: Dammit! I'm going outside for a smoke. I'll be back in 15 minutes. <_<
try doing an:
ls -al ~
that will list all the hidden files in your HOME directory, so you can see if the .bachsrc is there (thats what you have to remove according to the website).
I get
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 22 tahasyed staff 748 Apr 1 15:34 .
drwxrwxr-t 5 root wheel 170 Apr 1 00:17 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 tahasyed staff 9905 Jul 23 2003 .BPkey
-rw-r--r-- 1 tahasyed staff 3 Jul 18 2003 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tahasyed staff 6148 Apr 1 15:34 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 tahasyed staff 0 Jul 18 2003 .MCXLC
drwxr-xr-x 3 tahasyed staff 102 Aug 19 2003 .MacOSX
drwx------ 3 tahasyed staff 102 Apr 1 15:29 .Trash
-rw-r--r-- 1 tahasyed staff 24 Aug 27 2003 .cshrc
-rw------- 1 tahasyed staff 63 Aug 27 2003 .cvspass
drwxr-xr-x 3 tahasyed staff 102 Jul 28 2003 .eDonkey
drwxr-xr-x 2 tahasyed staff 68 Jul 18 2003 .java
drwxr-xr-x 4 tahasyed staff 136 Jul 18 2003 .jpi_cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 tahasyed staff 14 Aug 14 2003 .lpoptions
drwxr-xr-x 6 tahasyed staff 204 Jul 19 2003 .mplayer
drwx------ 3 tahasyed staff 102 Jul 28 2003 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 tahasyed staff 0 Aug 27 2003 .xinitrc
drwxr-xr-x 7 tahasyed staff 238 Apr 1 16:02 Desktop
drwx------ 14 tahasyed staff 476 Apr 1 15:34 Documents
drwx------ 43 tahasyed staff 1462 Aug 26 2003 Library
drwxr-xr-x 2 tahasyed staff 68 Aug 13 2003 Public
drwxr-xr-x 15 tahasyed staff 510 Aug 27 2003 Sites
Maybe because I wasn't using bash when I installed bochs?
In that case, what file should I look for..?
well, do this as root:
updatedb
locate boch
and it will list all the files on the system with "boch" in it. I guess if you remove all those files, it should work.
Also, how does a DMG install? Ive never actually seen it.
EDIT:\\
Why not ask this on the Bochs Discussion Board, they would know this better than us?
the locate boch thing didn't work .
Anyway, I'm backing up my data and formatting, all because of that fücking Bochs.
A dmg is a disk image. So when you double click a .dmg file, it mounts a virtual 'drive' which shows on your desktop. You can then drage the files from the 'drive' to your real drive to 'install' them.
ooh, if you're reinstalling.
LEAVE SOME UNPARTITIONED SPACE.
You want to install Linux, right. 
Man, you OSX people, always reinstalling.
Have you asked in the Bochs forum?
Well, after reading around in the forums, it looks like you have to delete(or edit) your .bochsrc file.
Originally posted by Taha@Aug 29 2003, 01:07 AMthe locate boch thing didn't work
Anyway, I'm backing up my data and formatting, all because of that fücking Bochs.
A dmg is a disk image. So when you double click a .dmg file, it mounts a virtual 'drive' which shows on your desktop. You can then drage the files from the 'drive' to your real drive to 'install' them.
you should try:
find . | grep boch | rm -r
that should remove all of boch!!
Taha,
If you are able to mount the dmf image you should be able to see what files are there right? just find the files in your hard drive and remove them..
find / -name \*boch\*
that will search your HD for anything with the letters boch in it's name. And if you want to automagically remove them..
find / -name \*boch\* -exec rm -rf {} \;
Telmo: I already had him do a "locate", and if that didn't find it, "find" won't either.
Contra, we were both wrong, on both our examples we were using case sensitive searchs, so neither yours or mine would find Boch for example.
find / -iname \*boch\*
find / -iname \*boch\* -exec rm -rf {} \;
that will be case insensitive.
locate -i boch
will also be better that just locate since it is also case insensitive.
well, bochsrc is what you have to remove, and im pretty sure thats lower case.
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