I need a volunteer to help test os9 running under OSX

ted bonkenburg ted at inaddrany.com
Mon Oct 11 23:29:51 MDT 2004


Hi All,

Thanks to all who volunteered.  It turns out I found someone at work 
who has a PowerBook and he can help me test.  So if things go well 
tomorrow then I'll post a report to this list and hopefully a download 
location so that more of you can try it out and report back.

There is one immediate nagging thing I want to take care of and that is 
currently you need to do a 'mount' in the terminal to figure out which 
device your cd rom drive is and then you need to unmount it by hand if 
you want to boot off CD.  I'd like to automate that, but if I don't get 
around to it I'll probably still post it -- it just won't be as easy to 
use and you'll actually have to read some instructions ;-)

Oh -- and before you get too excited, I haven't even tried to get sound 
or networking working yet...

ted

On 11 Oct, 2004, at 10:14 AM, Jerome Vernet wrote:

>
> Le 10 oct. 04, à 20:03, ted bonkenburg a écrit :
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> After some time away, I've freed up more time to play with MOL.  What 
>> I'm really interested in is the mac port of mol (running mol w/ the 
>> host os being os x), and I'm trying to see how I can help move this 
>> along :-)
>>
>> Some time ago I managed to get os9 to boot based on reading this 
>> mailing list.  Well, I started from scratch again with the latest 
>> source tree and I have os9 booting again.  Then I painstakingly 
>> repackaged mol so that it runs in the style of an os x app (i.e. it 
>> lives in only one directory, installation should be drag-and-drop, to 
>> remove you just drag 'Mom.app' to the trash, etc).  Finally, I've 
>> made a very basic UI for creating and running virtual machines -- 
>> well, os9 vm's only at the moment.
>>
>> I'd like a single volunteer to help me get this stage working so that 
>> I can put it out for more people to play with and get some feedback.  
>> I have only one test machine (ibook) which is "polluted" with many 
>> 'make installs' of mol, messing around trying to get things to work, 
>> etc.  So here is what I'm looking for:
>>
>> 1.  Someone who is running 10.3.5
>
> Not me, but my G4 yes
>
>> 2.  And has a G4 processor
>
> Two G4 processor (1,25), does it fit ?
>
>> 3.  And has a copy of the Mac OS 9 install cd (preferably 9.1 since 
>> that is what I'm using)
>
> I have, from systeme 0.2 to 9.2.2 ;)
>
>> 4.  And is willing to test things out and maybe go through a few 
>> iterations (i.e. it probably won't run right the first time)
>
> I can do that.
>
>> 5.  And won't give it out to others (I just want to get it right 
>> before I make it generally available)
> I will try ;)
>> 6.  And understands that while it is very, very, extremely unlikely 
>> -- this may hose your system :-)
>
> Hum.... I love playing ;)
>
>>
>> I can provide an http address for download, so you don't have to 
>> worry about your inbox getting slammed (I'm thinking of you here, 
>> Gasper :-).
>>
>> Any takers?
> Me, if you want.
>
> Jerome
>
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jerome.vernet/
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