Kevyn Shortell (kevyn@apple.com)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:29:57 -0800
We're listening,
But due to the limited resources at hand, and the small numbers
of ANS systems out there, You will probably never see a shipping
version of Mac OS X server that runs on the ANS hardware.
You might be able to trick one into booting from a pre-installed
disk with Mac OS X Server, but the installer would probably have
a heart attack if you tried to install on the ANS =)
Kevyn
At 9:30 PM -0800 12/10/98, Adam Lang wrote:
>>I'll tell you this: I've SEEN screenshots of Rhapsody pre-DR1 (it was in
>>fact the first screen shots I'd ever seen) booting off of a Shiner box. It
>>even said so in the bootup script.
>
>You're kidding. Really? Oh, God, you would not BELIEVE how long I
>spent trying to get DR1 and DR2 runing on this @%#$% thing. In fact,
>I might even be willing to believe that my screwing with it and the
>9500 ROM and my anguished screams when neither one worked were what
>stopped LinuxPPC's erstwhile-successful installs, and left me up a
>creek without a plantaginet. Or whatever.
>
>Rhapsody DR1 would boot off of a 9500 without an NVRAMRC, even.
>
>By the way, in case anyone is curious, the ANS 500 with a 9500 ROM DOES
>make it into OF, if you do it via the serial port. Of course, it is
>serial port 2 that is the one that... *grumblegrumble* Anyway, it will
>also start to boot into MacOS, but freezes at the grey screen (this is
>with a third-party video card.) I speculate that it might actually
>boot into MacOS if it had a third-party SCSI card in it, too. Then
>again, maybe not. I might try, sometime when I'm really, REALLLY
>ultra super bored. If my company doesn't reposess the 9500 ROM before
>the next time I'm that bored.
>
>Pleeeeease. If anyone at Apple is listening... I want to run
>MacOS X Server on this thing.
>
>--Adam Lang
>
>Adam Lang, LAP Technologies, 786 Sharmon Palms Ln. Suite D, Campbell, CA
>95008
>(408) 374-5636 thalen@cs.pdx.edu
>
>"There is no reason for an individual to have a computer in their home."
> -- 1977, Ken Olsen, President of DEC Inc.
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Kevyn Shortell Developer Technical Support
Mac OS/UNIX Systems Engineer Apple Computer, Inc
kevyn@apple.com http://developer.apple.com/games
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