XPF 3 and "New" world Macs |
March, 19, 2003 9:50 PM |
powderhaus |
I know alot of "new" world computers cannot boot from firewire, will XPF3 work with them or will it disable some of their advantages? I wouldn't think that it would cripple the "new" world computers because from what i can tell it just fakes OSX into installing and then adds a few "extentions" (I don't really know the difference between .Ktext and .Plist.... in Unix) that add support for old things that are no longer included in "new" world computers. Please correct me if i am wrong. i would like to know the difference between that unix stuff. Thanks, Jim |
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RE: XPF 3 and |
April, 29, 2003 6:45 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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No the B&W G3 and the orignal PCI video card G4 (yikes) do not support FW booting! |
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RE: XPF 3 and |
April, 29, 2003 3:40 PM |
gchron |
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I think ath all new world machines can boot from firewire. As all these machines have firewire on board. I just found a machine that could not boot from firewire and updated its firmware and it started to boot. Just to let you all know. What is the machine you have??? |
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RE: XPF 3 and |
April, 28, 2003 12:36 PM |
OSXGuru |
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In theory, XPF 3 could work with the New World macs that don't support Firewire booting. But it would require some extra work. I'll look into what would be needed. |
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RE: XPF 3 and |
March, 20, 2003 10:48 PM |
joevt |
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I agree that XP3 won't cripple New World Computers but that doesn't mean it will allow FireWire booting on the New World Macs that don't support it. We'll have to wait and see. XPF doesn't fake anything. It allows OS X to boot and that's all. It does that by adding extensions that were not included in OS X to make the old hardware work. Since it's not possible to add extensions to an Installer CD, XPF puts them on the hard drive and tells the computer to boot from there. .plist and .kext are only used on OS X. They are not used on any other Unix system. .kext (kernel extension) is a package (actually a folder) that contains drivers (usually one) that work in the kernel. Kexts live in /System/ Library/Extensions/. .plist (property list) files are text files in XML format (looks like HTML) and contains information like version number etc. All kernel extensions and most OS X apps have a .plist file. In a kernel extension, a plist file will have a list of dependencies (what other kexts it needs to work) and a list of personalities (what kind of devices it works with). |
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