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Re: [newbie] Darwin on Apple Network Servers?

And so it was that Markus Hitter said on 24/7/01 11:28 pm:

>Am Dienstag, 24. Juli 2001 um 18:15 schrieb Ken Tabb:
>
>> Hi,
>> I've been using MacOS X for some months now, but have still not
>> installed
>> Darwin on anything yet. One (well 2 in fact) likely looking candidates
>> are my Apple Network Servers (the 604e based UNIX (AIX) servers with
>> internal RAID, dual power supplies etc.).
>>
>> Does anyone know if a Darwin kernel exists for these beasts...
>
>Just give them a try.
>
>In principle, Darwin (like OS X) works fine on 604 and even 603
>processors. The only problem are the needed kernel extensions and a
>method to get the booter (BootX) to run.
>
>I'd suggest to install OS 9 as well as OS X on two partitions, add Ryan
>Rempels oldWorld support (http://homepage.mac.com/RyanRempel/) and then
>to boot OS X, holding down cmd-v to see all the text messages. OS X is
>better than Darwin, since Darwin is currently some part missing (BootX,
>written into the partition table) which is needed by oldWorld machines.
>
>To install OS X, you might have a chicken-and-egg problem unless you
>have another box where you can put the drive temporarily. But read Ryans
>comments for this, too.
>
>You might also want to try an older Darwin version, first, since they
>had better oldWorld support and a complete other booting mechanism. Do
>you know wether OS X Server 1.x works on your box?
>
>You see, it might just work or need some fiddling. If you're stuck, tell
>me how far your boot goes.
>
>
>Hope that helps a little,
>Markus

Thanks for the comments Markus. I can foresee a problem... MacOS 9 (or
indeed any version of Classic MacOS) doesn't install on Apple Network
Servers as they have a different ROM from your average mac (but are based
on the 9500/9600 motherboard apart from that). They were built to run AIX
(IBM's flavour of UNIX), but Apple stopped licensing AIX in '97/98, so
the system version on the beasts has been frozen in time since then
(although you could still update apache etc. of course)

I shall try the 'whip the disk out, install Darwin, and put it back in'
approach though. Certainly OS X Server v1.2 didn't install, but then
again it wasn't based on Darwin at that point, if I remember correctly
(it was Rhapsody).

Thanks for your help, I shall post any results I get.
Ken

---------
Ken Tabb.
Mac & UNIX C/C++/Java developer (Health & Human Sciences),
Machine Vision researcher/programmer (Computer Science),
University of Hertfordshire, England
http://www.health.herts.ac.uk/ken/

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