Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet?

Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet?

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi,

I was interested in playing around with Darwin (Apple's open BSD Unix
variant) and noticed the new binary available from
http://www.publicsource.apple.com

It says it will boot on most machines that MacOS server will.  And it now
includes EGCS as its compiler.

I have a PowerTower 604e system 200Mhz, PCI, 64 meg ram, etc.  It looks
like a suped up 7200 if I remember correctly.  The machine ID is 108.

Is anyone out in Linux PPC land also playing with Darwin?  Will the new
binary boot on my machine?  Are there any tricks I need to use to get it to
boot?

Thanks for any help.

Kevin



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Re: Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet?

[Nathan Ingersoll]

I think that it only works with G3 or newer machines.

"Kevin B. Hendricks" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was interested in playing around with Darwin (Apple's open BSD Unix
> variant) and noticed the new binary available from
> http://www.publicsource.apple.com
>
> It says it will boot on most machines that MacOS server will.  And it now
> includes EGCS as its compiler.
>
> I have a PowerTower 604e system 200Mhz, PCI, 64 meg ram, etc.  It looks
> like a suped up 7200 if I remember correctly.  The machine ID is 108.
>
> Is anyone out in Linux PPC land also playing with Darwin?  Will the new
> binary boot on my machine?  Are there any tricks I need to use to get it to
> boot?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Kevin


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Re: Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet?

[Darron Froese]

> I think that it only works with G3 or newer machines.

Not quite correct - some people have reported success (on the Darwin
Development Mailing List) installing it on other machines - machines that
were initially supposed to run "Rhapsody" but ended up not being officially
supported by Mac OS X Server - PCI based Power Macs that aren't G3's: the
7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500 and 9600 all come to mind.

I'm gonna try it on my 7600 when I've got a spare disk I can use.
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Re: Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet?

[Roger Ivie]

>I think that it only works with G3 or newer machines.

I've had it running on a 9600, but this machine _does_ have a G3 upgrade.
Interestingly, MacOS X Server refuses to install on this machine.

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Re: Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet?

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Darron Froese wrote:

> > I think that it only works with G3 or newer machines.
> 
> Not quite correct - some people have reported success (on the Darwin
> Development Mailing List) installing it on other machines - machines that
> were initially supposed to run "Rhapsody" but ended up not being officially
> supported by Mac OS X Server - PCI based Power Macs that aren't G3's: the
> 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500 and 9600 all come to mind.

It's officially unsupported, but I'm under the impression that it will
probably work at least partially on most PCI machines.


David

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Re: Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet?

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Roger Ivie wrote:

> >I think that it only works with G3 or newer machines.
> 
> I've had it running on a 9600, but this machine _does_ have a G3 upgrade.
> Interestingly, MacOS X Server refuses to install on this machine.

You might try installing with another machine, then hooking the drive up
to it and see if that works.  It'd be an interesting experiment.  :-)


David

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Re: Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet?

[apocalypse]

i know this is a bit off topic but i could not even use the installer because it
gives me an error 'could not find any configurations to
restore'  could my archive be corrrupt or something ?  or is it just because i
have a stupid clone  (UMAX S900 on to which ppl have
managed to install rhapsody i am told)  if you have any suggestions please reply


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