Darwin installation on i386 PC. darwin8.0.1 vs. opendarwin7.2.1
Darwin installation on i386 PC. darwin8.0.1 vs. opendarwin7.2.1
- Subject: Darwin installation on i386 PC. darwin8.0.1 vs. opendarwin7.2.1
- From: Kristoff Bonne <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:26:06 +0100
Gegroet,
About a month or two ago, I got myself a second-hand PC to "play around"
with all kind of operating-systems on it.
As I already tried out darwin, opendarwin and gnudarwin on my old G3
imac-computer about a year ago, I descided to give the i386-versions of
it a try on this new box.
However, sofar, I have not been able to install darwin on it.
Opendarwin 7.2.1 for i386 does install and work without much problems (I
did have some problems to get GRUB configured correctly as the OS is
installed on a disk on the slave controller); but darwin8.0.1 does not
not work.
I downloaded "darwinx86-801.iso.gz" and burned it onto a CD. I am able
to boot and it goes as far as "The following devices are available for
installation:" but then it stops.
This is on a pretty standard PC without any exotic hardware, with a 1
Ghz pentium III and 512 MB of RAM. It does have two disks but none of
them appears in this list.
The strange thing -as I already said- is that it does work OK with
opendarwin 7.2.1.
Anybody any ideas? It is possible to add any "debuging" options to see
what exactly is going on and what is causing the installation-process to
halt there?
I would like to be able give darwin itself a try as I noticed (in the
more then a year that I haven't watched darwin anymore) that the
opendarwin project now seams to have stopped.
Is there absolutely no developement on opendarwin anymore?
And there doesn"t seam to have happend that much on the "gnu-darwin"
side neither; that since 2004. (now more then 2 years ago)?
So is there still any work done on using darwin as a basis for an
alternative OS? GNU darwin did already provide some part of this.
On the same computer now running darwin, I have now less then 3 other
operating-systems installed and running which are based on debian with a
non-linux kernel:
- debian/kfreebsd (GNU debian with a freebsd kernel)
- debian/hurd (GNU debian with the hurd kernel)
- nexenta (GNU debian with a opensolaris kernel) (althou this OS is not
a "official" branch of debian).
So, the only one that seams to be missing is GNU debian with a
darwin-kernel!
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
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