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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: juris on 23 September 2002, 18:02

Title: Darwin OS installation
Post by: juris on 23 September 2002, 18:02

Hi!

I am having problemswith loading this OS. Installatio process seemed to complete without any errors. But OS still doen not load.

First of all I am not sure what is the right way for loading Darwin. Ofcourse I created 2 partitions, one boot partition (primary) and one root partition (logical). So, I was thinking maybe there are some restrictions about partitions (both should be primary? may be allocation of partition also matters?).

I tried to load Darwin using Smart Boot Manager (which I prefer cause it understands FreeBSD), byt got *Load Error*.

So, I was thinking maybe someone coud give me some tips how to do thing right.

P.S. I also have w2k and w98 on my box.

Title: Darwin OS installation
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 23 September 2002, 18:46

When i hear of Darwin i think of Mac OS.  Then when i hear Darwin running alongside win2k i think "not possible because its an x86 platform and Darwin doesn't run on it"!

I think i am wrong though in my thinking though!   :eek:

[ September 23, 2002: Message edited by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter ]

Title: Darwin OS installation
Post by: juris on 23 September 2002, 19:00

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnu-darwin/gnu-darwin-cd-beta2.5-x86.iso.gz (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnu-darwin/gnu-darwin-cd-beta2.5-x86.iso.gz)

I was interested in Darwin AGAIN, because from the very beginning it did not suport AMD/VIA platforms. Now that it's possible, i wanted to try it out.

So, just go search the web - Darwin is also available for x86 platforms.

Title: Darwin OS installation
Post by: psyjax on 23 September 2002, 19:41

Im not sure what your problem might be. As I understand it Darwin on x86 is very finiky about what hardware it can run on.

Why not try some darwin BBS's?

Here is a list of known working devices from the DNU Darwin site:

http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/installation/cd/hw-x86.php (http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/installation/cd/hw-x86.php)

Title: Darwin OS installation
Post by: juris on 23 September 2002, 19:49

So, let's start by explaining why I even thought about trying out Darwin. Just recently i found out that it is also working on AMD.

But so far surfing around the net I get this feeling that noone has really tried this OS on x86. All available guides on installing are really poor. Seems like this OS (for x86) comunity has only a few members  (http://smile.gif)

... weird ...

Title: Darwin OS installation
Post by: psyjax on 23 September 2002, 23:48

Personly, the only reason I think apple made Darwin x86, has very much to do with project Marklar. one day OS X may be comin to a PC near you!