Quadruple Boot System

[Greg Hamilton]

I'd be inclined to install OS X and use a console login to run X11. 
Then, as suggested in another post, install Fink or Darwin ports. You 
can get to a console from the OS X login window by entering '>console' 
as the username. This shuts down the window manager and gives you a 
text mode console from which you can start X11.

This page on the O'Reilly site explains how to make OS X boot to a 
console by default:

http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/348

I've run X11 full screen on OS X without Aqua. Cool, but a little slow 
at as I don't think there was any support for video hardware 
acceleration. The Apple supplied X11 does hardware acceleration but can 
only be run rootless under Aqua. Very crap.


On 29/05/2004, at 12:54 PM, Ted Goranson wrote:

> Greg Hamilton wrote on 5/29/04:
>> I have OS X, OS 9, YDL 3.01 and Debian installed on my iBook. I 
>> sometimes use MOL to run OS 9 and OS X from YDL. Haven't installed 
>> MOL in Debian yet.
>>
>> This is the way I have things laid out at the moment. Bit of a dog's 
>> breakfast unfortunately.
>
> Let me ask a question and provide more info.
>
> My intent in installing one of the Darwins is to squeeze as much speed 
> as possible using a barebones X11 setup to complement the more varied 
> Linux. My understanding is that it is too hard to set up OS X such 
> that you have an option to drop Aqua and get Darwin plus X11 (Emacs 
> and some related stuff). The Darwin code from Apple is current but 
> barebones. The way for someone like me is to use OpenDarwin and their 
> ports. Is this right?
>
> The more info:
>
> I hope to have two additional disks, a slave ATA formatted HFS+ and 
> visible to the Mac OSs (including within MOL) and an UltraSCSI 
> formatted UFS accessible to the Unixen sides.
>
> I will report on how it goes. That's for the tips, Greg.
>
> Best, Ted
> -- 
> Ted Goranson
> Advanced Enterprise Research Office
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