Aaron deMello (aaron@demonsys.com)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:32:18 -0500
> 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 =)
AHA! So there may be another option for those who can't get LinuxPPC
installed on their ANSs.... BTW, is Apple going to include a copy of a
recent version of Netscape Navigator/Communicator with OS X Server? DR2
came with OmniWeb which is lovely if you're coming from a NextSTEP
perspective, but if you're looking at OS X Server from the Mac side, it's
falls WAY short.
Does anyone know when OS X Server is due? I'd like to get my grubby little
hands on it to see if Apple is capable of a high-performance OS.
d.
> 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.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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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