MOL running Mac

[Steven Mezzadri]

Let me give you a bit more background:

I have tried for a few weeks now to get mol 0.70-0.71pre to run on several
distributions of Linux (I spent the most time with Suse 10.1, Fedora 4, and
Yellow Dog 4.1 because I am most familiar with RPM-based distros).

I have been able to compile your package "mol-0.9.71_pre8.tar.bz2" using
"make / make install" successfully on most all of them, but after I'm done
and have completed molvconfig the same thing always happens:

I type  "startmol -cdboot" with an OS9 cdrom in the drive or just "startmol"
with a mac partition on the machine, I consistently get a white window with
nothing in it..  No error messages in the console window either -- he
machine just sits idle.  If I do "startmol -X" the window turns black or
white then gray, checks the cd-drive for media, then quits, because I don't
have OS X here, not even a boot CD... and even so, I want to run 9, not X.

Mol 0.68/0.69 works fine with OS9 on all Kernel 2.4-based linux
distributions I've tried (best luck was with Mandrake 9.1/Yellowdog 3.0.1),
but these older distributions lack a lot of other features I want, like ALSA
sound support, newer GLIBC libraries, and other components.

The hardware we have here is an iMac/350 with 320 MB RAM, 7 GB HD, CD-ROM.
We have 100's of these machines here and they run Linux very quickly, but to
move them to linux, I need to keep the old OS 9 applications available.

I've been using Finnix 0.87 to image the machines and to create a bootable
CD-ROM to duplicate my images on other iMacs, and that process works
great...  Just need the magic touch now to turn that white screen into a
"happy mac" :)
 
~Steve~


> Steven Mezzadri wrote: 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> 
> All 0.9.7x version run macos9 here. 
> 
> Atm I am using 
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre8 [Feb 4 2006 11:55] 
> 
> which runs macos9 very fine :) 
> 
> using Debian, but I compiled my mol myself using 
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/mol-0.9.71_pre8.tar.bz2 
> 
> 
> Greg 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I was wondering if anyone has been able to get Mac OS 9.x running 
>> under MOL 0.9.70 or newer on any distro of Linux, more specifically an 
>> RPM-based distro like Yellow Dog if it was possible. 
>> 
>> I have only been able to get 0.9.68 to run OS 9 under Mandrake 9.1 and 
>> 0.9.69 to run OS 9 under YellowDog 3.0.1 so far. 
>> 
>> I would like to use a more modern distribution, however. If 0.9.7x 
>> cannot run OS 9, then has anyone been able to get MOL 0.9.68 running 
>> on a newer distro? I can't seem to compile that on newer versions 
>> either. 
>> 
>> Thanks, 
>> 
>> Steve 
>> 
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