I need a volunteer to help test os9 running under OSX

[Natalia Portillo]

Did you tried mount() and unmount() syscalls?
Sound and networking are secondary (specially sound), first, it should work.


> -----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: martes, 12 de octubre de 2004 6:30
> Para: Mac-on-Linux General Discussion List
> Asunto: Re: I need a volunteer to help test os9 running under OSX
> 
> 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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