oldies 500/700 with xpostfacto? |
June, 08, 2003 2:54 PM |
rvamerongen |
Hi What about the old 500/700 server from apple with the aix unix? Is there a posability to get Darwin running or hopefully also with macosx? So far as I understands, we dont need a mac rom to get macosx running? I did search the forum, but couldn't find anything about those oldies, but I remember that some whil a go ther was something about this on this forum. Some idea or suggestions? René |
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RE: oldies 500/700 with xpostfacto? |
June, 09, 2003 4:09 AM |
nick.ashton |
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Because of the hardware differences between an Apple Network Server and a PowerMac I don't think there is any way to run OSX on one of those machines. It annoyed users considerably when Apple refused to port the original version of OSX Server to the ANS platform (that's the version of OSX Server which predates 10.0). There are some sites which detail how to install Linux and NetBSD onto one of these beasts. I think one of the problems is setting up support for the built-in SCSI RAID controller which supports those hot-swap hard drives. If you want to utilise the nice chassis and those hot-swap drives I suppose you could try swapping the motherboard for a PowerMac board. Anyway, just put "Apple ANS700" into the Google search will bring up the NetBSD and Linux sites and some interesting background on Apple's aborted attempts at producing true servers in the 1990's. |
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RE: oldies 500/700 with xpostfacto? |
June, 09, 2003 3:59 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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I'm thinking perhaps your best bet may be Yellow dog linux... I'm pretty sure OSX isn't going to happen for you, but I'd love to be proved wrong ;~> Marty |
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Got a G3 in 'em? |
June, 08, 2003 6:03 PM |
naturist |
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OS X from 10.0 to 10.1.5 requires at least a 603 or 604 PPC chip, so they might run. OS X from 10.2 to the current 10.2.6 requires a G3 or G4. Unless you can find a way to put one of those chips into that 500 or 700, there is no way you can get any version of OS X to run. Into the bargain, there is the speed thing: OS X is dreadfully, uselessly slow on any of those chips at anything under 400 MHz. |
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