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| DATE | 2004-05-20 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] PearPC 0.1: Is It A Miracle?
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PearPC 0.1: Is It A Miracle?
By Thom Holwerda - Posted on 2004-05-18 19:51:50
at OSNews [http://www.osnews.com/]
Well, I can say it truly is a miracle. I never thought I would be able to
install Mac OS X 10.3 on my supposedly "inferior" x86-based AMD machine.
Well, for most of you mac-zealots, you were wrong. It actually does. And
I've got the proof right here!
The installation was not really that hard; the PearPC
[http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/] website has done an excellent job in
providing you with information. And, just days after the 0.1 release,
websites all around the world posted howto's and installation guides. I'm
not going to explain how it is done in this article; that is not the purpose
of this article. The purpose of this article is to simply show you that it
can be done, and I will do this through a number of screenshots.
After generating .iso's from the Mac OS X install disks, it is time to boot
PearPC by issuing a simple "ppc config.txt" command. PPC itself does not
really have a GUI (only the "change CD" button) so the first GUI stuff
you'll encounter is the Installer:
My hart actually skipped a beat; I never really thought it would work; not
necessarily because I thought PearPC was vaporware, but more because my
computer is getting kind of, well, old.
Of course everything was not running very snappy; on their website they warn
you: the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host
processor. Still, I was amazed at what I saw: it worked!
After a painstaking process of creating a bootable "harddisk" (grab a
bootable .img file from the website; it saves you a lot of time), the
installation started.
It took, in total, more than 5 hours. And that was just the first cd. Since
I had nothing else to do (PearPC took 99% of my processor and all the RAM it
could possibly find), I actually started to clean my bed/computer room.
Thank you, PearPC.
After the installation of the first disk, PearPC had to be restarted with
the harddisk image file as the master, and the second install disk as slave.
This was a point of frustration; Mac OS X would not boot. Luckily, I was not
the only one having this problem. It turned out that the installer put the
Mac OS X partition in third, while it should be in second place. Again, take
a look at the PearPC website, the solution is out there.
After the installation of the second disk was ready, I was finally able to
boot into Mac OS X 10.3, Panther. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a very
strange moment. I now know what all those people must have felt when they
were abducted by aliens (not that I believe in those stories, but still).
Well, just when I was ready to start "Enjoying my Apple Computer", a weird
bug appeared: I was dropped into an infinite Finder crash-loop. Well, not
really infinite, 15 minutes or so later, the loop ended. Mac OS X 10.3,
Panther, was actually running on my Athlon machine!
The only glitch left was the Dock. It also encountered a crash loop, but
this one was indeed infinite. I am confident that these problems will be
resolved in later versions of PearPC.
Conclusion:
I am truly impressed. I do not really have anything more to say than: thank
you, PearPC, for this, well, enlightened moment. And for my clean room, of
course.
Test system:
- AMD Athlon XP 1600+;
- 512 MB SDRAM;
- Ati Radeon 9000 with 128 MB DDR-RAM;
- CMI-8738 based 5.1 soundcard;
- MSI K7T Turbo2 mainboard;
- 40 GB harddisk;
- Standard ps/2 keyboard;
- Microsoft Trackball Optical (USB);
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (host);
- PearPC 0.1, emulating Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (client).
About the Author:
Thom Holwerda is a regular visitor on OSNews.com and has contributed more
than once. His first computer experience dates back to 1991 (a 286 entered
the household). Over the years he has played around with several computers,
but it wasn't until 2001 that he really started to experiment OS-wise with
computers. His favorite operating systems are Windows Server 2003, Mandrake
Linux, BeOS. He also has an affinity for the QNX Neutrino RTOS. Thom also
contributes to the SkyOS project, being responsible for the Dutch
translation.
( Original Story URL at http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7085 )
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