I need a volunteer to help test os9 running under OSX

Natalia Portillo iosglpgc at teleline.es
Tue Oct 12 00:29:38 MDT 2004


I have a PowerBook G4 with 10.3.5 and like to test things 

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org 
> [mailto:mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org] En nombre 
> de ted bonkenburg
> Enviado el: domingo, 10 de octubre de 2004 19:04
> Para: mol-general at lists.maconlinux.org
> Asunto: I need a volunteer to help test os9 running under OSX
> 
> 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
> 2.  And has a G4 processor
> 3.  And has a copy of the Mac OS 9 install cd (preferably 9.1 
> since that is what I'm using) 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) 5.  And won't give 
> it out to others (I just want to get it right before I make 
> it generally available) 6.  And understands that while it is 
> very, very, extremely unlikely -- this may hose your system :-)
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> ted
> 
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