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OpenDarwin and DarwinPorts on my x86

#1 tyme

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Post icon Posted 03 June 2004 - 04:24 PM

For fun, I've decided to have a go at installing OpenDarwin (the base of OSX) on my x86, and then putting DarwinPorts on it. I choose DarwinPorts over Fink for the time being due to the fact that DarwinPorts has gnome 2.6.0 (I'm a gnome lover ;) ).

I plan to free up the space on my hard drive to begin this project tonight. I'll be posting my experiences here, and later posting an entire write-up over at Code Junkies which I will link to in this thread.

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Posted 04 June 2004 - 09:38 AM

:thumbs:

I'm waiting patiently for updates already!

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Posted 07 June 2004 - 10:06 PM

Unfortunately it would seem that my IDE controllers are not compatible. the CD boots, and goes through detecting some hardware, but locks up. I'm going to try OpenDarwin 6.6.2 instead of Darwin 7.0.1

we'll see what happens.

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Posted 07 June 2004 - 11:22 PM

After considering the same a few weeks ago I saw a thread that said only Intel chipset were specifically well supported and a few amd/via's. It was suggested that you can try with a via BUT.... :wall:

...so I didn't even bother :devil:

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Posted 07 June 2004 - 11:45 PM

all the chip sets on my computers are Intel, I might as well give it a go.

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Posted 08 August 2004 - 07:38 AM

tyme, on Jun 7 2004, 10:06 PM, said:

Well, how did OpenDarwin fare? :cheesy:

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Posted 08 August 2004 - 10:10 PM

it didn't...

apparently it only really works on Intel chipsets, and since I have an SIS chipset it always failed when i tried to install.

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Posted 11 August 2004 - 11:35 PM

well I'm gonna give it a try too :) :P

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Posted 17 August 2004 - 01:34 PM

:lol:

I did this same thing about 6 months ago. NOT well supported eh? :furious3:

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Posted 18 August 2004 - 12:59 AM

Thinking of giving this a shot.. looks like OS X when its running?

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Posted 18 August 2004 - 04:42 AM

no.

OpenDarwin is just the open(er) version of the BSD base of OS X known as Darwin. It doesn't include the OS X GUI. You'd just install XFree86 or xorg and whatever desktop like a normal linux distro.

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