OPENSTEP 4.2 Installer Boots on VMware Server (Well, kind of)
I'd discovered something that I thought was quite interesting.
After exploring Apple's FTP site, I'd picked up a few disk images from the "upgrade" section.
If you create a new VM, give it just 16MB of RAM, take away the CD-ROM drive, and give the VM a NIC, you too can attempt to install the little piece of history that is OPENSTEP 4.2.
I've found that it works as far as the the attached screenshot, after messing with a load of disk images (all containing different sets of drivers).
I'm leaving a challenge open, so that anyone can report their success (and failure) with OPENSTEP. Get the disk images here.
The screenshot shows that there's some sort of GUI (if a little rudimentary one), in the installer.
After exploring Apple's FTP site, I'd picked up a few disk images from the "upgrade" section.
If you create a new VM, give it just 16MB of RAM, take away the CD-ROM drive, and give the VM a NIC, you too can attempt to install the little piece of history that is OPENSTEP 4.2.
I've found that it works as far as the the attached screenshot, after messing with a load of disk images (all containing different sets of drivers).
I'm leaving a challenge open, so that anyone can report their success (and failure) with OPENSTEP. Get the disk images here.
The screenshot shows that there's some sort of GUI (if a little rudimentary one), in the installer.
1 Comments:
What you linked to are just floppies you can boot from. To actually install OPENSTEP you need to have the CD, and that's not free. If you have a CD, here is some possibly helpful information on installing in VMware 3.0, including links to video drivers. Finally, if you manage to install OPENSTEP you'll probably find that the mouse starts misbehaving quite quickly, and that becomes annoying fast.
By dreamlayers, at 3:28 AM
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