You can boot from a Darwin CD and install it on an OldWorld system with the help of XPostFacto from Ryan Rempel at http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/. Even with its help, it could may be not an easy job to install into a 7500 system (some stories at the xpostfacto forum).
To install on
Scott Henson wrote:
I work for the csee department here and we have tons of hardware
laying around including some old powermac 7500 and a quadra something
or another. Im pretty sure we have some hardware laying around
somewhere that will have hardware that is supported by X86 darwin,
otherwise I
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:16:06PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> otherwise I think Im going to try to install on the powermac or
> quadra(no clue what this is) but I hear that installing on oldworld
> powermacs is a bitch and I would rather do it on the plentiful x86
> hardware we have here.
The Ma
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Scott Henson wrote:
>> I think Im going to have to find a spare box to install Darwin on.
>> Unfortunately its going to be an x86 box because my ibook doesn't have
>> the hard drive space for a Darwin install.
>
> You mean you have an x86 box with one of
Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote:
this guy has booted opendarwin with vmware, but it has
troubles with the network interface:
My workstation at the office has VMware 4.5 installed on it - I've tried
Darwin (and OpenDarwin) in 4.0 and 4.5 versions. In 4.0.x, it caused the
virtualization process
At Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:46:43 +0200,
Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote:
>
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: "Debian Within a Darwin System"
> From: Luca Bigliardi - shammash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:46:43 +0200
> Message
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:41 AM, Derrik Pates wrote:
> making virtualization solutions like VMware not work.
this guy has booted opendarwin with vmware, but it has
troubles with the network interface:
http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hackers/2004-July/004491.html
you can find the list of s
Scott Henson wrote:
I think Im going to have to find a spare box to install Darwin on.
Unfortunately its going to be an x86 box because my ibook doesn't have
the hard drive space for a Darwin install.
You mean you have an x86 box with one of the two IDE controllers or the
one or two SCSI con
David Schleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
>> Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > You really need to prefix these at build time.
>> >
>>
>> No I don't think you need a prefix.
>
> gromit:~$ grep -l '/usr' /usr
On Aug 02 2004, David Schleef wrote:
> (btw, I think a Darwin port would be cool. I'm tired of fixing
> Fink's brokenness.)
I agree. Using Fink is a royal pain in the ass when you already know how
Debian works. There are many problems with Fink, IMO.
First of all, you have all those packages tha
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > You really need to prefix these at build time.
> >
>
> No I don't think you need a prefix.
gromit:~$ grep -l '/usr' /usr/bin/*|wc -l
1055
gromit:~$
How do those get fixed-up?
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Scott Henson wrote:
>> There is of course the problem of packages possibly not knowing about
>> the --root switch and they would still look for their conf files under
>> /etc, but that may also be a bug and there may be some way o
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Scott Henson wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Scott Henson wrote:
> >> MacOS are mutually exclusive. Check out the --root options to dpkg.
> >> I would think once one has Debian on Darwin one could easily port use
> >> the same bin
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Scott Henson wrote:
>> MacOS are mutually exclusive. Check out the --root options to dpkg.
>> I would think once one has Debian on Darwin one could easily port use
>> the same binaries on MacOS and even use debootstrap to build
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Scott Henson wrote:
> MacOS are mutually exclusive. Check out the --root options to dpkg.
> I would think once one has Debian on Darwin one could easily port use
> the same binaries on MacOS and even use debootstrap to build the
> initial Debian install inside of /sw or whereve
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:21:59AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> } Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> }
> } > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:59:07PM +, Alexander Solla wrote:
> } > I wouldn't be quite automatic. Among other things, I would w
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:21:59AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
} Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
}
} > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:59:07PM +, Alexander Solla wrote:
} > I wouldn't be quite automatic. Among other things, I would want
} > Debian-managed software to be outside the main
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:59:07PM +, Alexander Solla wrote:
> I wouldn't be quite automatic. Among other things, I would want
> Debian-managed software to be outside the main tree (i.e. in /usr/local
> or, better, in /sw or the like). I also would
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:59:07PM +, Alexander Solla wrote:
> } On Sunday 01 August 2004 07:13 pm, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> } eat if Debian chose to begin supporting
> }
> } > I can't see Debian supporting MacOS X directly, since I believe there is
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:59:07PM +, Alexander Solla wrote:
} On Sunday 01 August 2004 07:13 pm, Gregory Seidman wrote:
} eat if Debian chose to begin supporting
}
} > I can't see Debian supporting MacOS X directly, since I believe there is
} > some bad blood between Apple and Debian. Darwin,
On Sunday 01 August 2004 07:13 pm, Gregory Seidman wrote:
eat if Debian chose to begin supporting
>
> I can't see Debian supporting MacOS X directly, since I believe there is
> some bad blood between Apple and Debian. Darwin, however, is a
> reasonable BSD to support, and any work done there could
ebian GNU/Linux PowerPC PowerMac Page
} > > (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac) the second
} > > paragraph closes by mentioning that "Shortly, you may also have
} > > the option of running Debian within a Darwin system." What
} > > exactly does that statement me
/Linux PowerPC PowerMac Page
> > > (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac) the second paragraph
> > > closes by mentioning that "Shortly, you may also have the option of
> > > running Debian within a Darwin system." What exactly does that statement
t/pmac) the second paragraph closes
> > by mentioning that "Shortly, you may also have the option of running Debian
> > within a Darwin system." What exactly does that statement mean, and when
> > is shortly? Thank you for your help.
I think this is connected
e the option of running Debian
> within a Darwin system." What exactly does that statement mean, and when is
> shortly? Thank you for your help.
I believe that means there are several ongoing efforts within Debian
to port Debian GNU to other kernels. I know of the kNetBSD and
kFreeBSD p
On the Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC PowerMac Page
(http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac) the second paragraph closes by
mentioning that "Shortly, you may also have the option of running Debian within
a Darwin system." What exactly does that statement mean, and when is shortly?
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