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Bootlegger's Quest

longmarch

Sat Jun 1 09:09:52 2002

Having downloaded the infamous bootleg of Openstep (or is it "OpenStep?" ) 4.2, I find that the bin image extracted from the iso burns (like Rome, presumably) as an unreadable disk in my PeeCee.  Could JR or one of the Wise Ones who've traveled this road before enlighten me as to 1) whether or not I've burned coasters or,  if perchance, 2) this is the way the CD is supposed to read in inferior 2002 technology, and, if so, 3) where I can find a boot disk that will allow me to boot the bastard?

(Edited by longmarch at 4:11 am on June 1, 2002)

Jeremy Reimer

Sat Jun 1 16:32:27 2002

It's supposed to be like that.  As long as you extracted the .bin from the iso and created a cd from the .bin (not just copying over the .bin) you'll be fine.

You need a couple of boot disks.  Do a search for "Openstep boot floppy" and follow the links.  One is for booting, the other has various device drivers.  You'll need both to install.

Other installation instructions include: you have to have your hard disk on the primary master IDE channel, and the CD-ROM you are installing from on the primary slave channel.  Otherwise, it won't install.

longmarch

Sat Jun 1 19:08:45 2002

Thanks for the tips.  I found a page of links, but so far I can't connect to til.info.apple.com, enterprise.apple.com, or ent.apple.com.  Figures.  I will try again from my office when next I'm there.

Whoa, hold on!  Just fount the ftp site.  Sweet!  Wgetting the drivers and floppies right now.

I just picked up a Tyan Tsunai AT w/Celeron 466, ATX case (w/ATX PSU and hacked up in the back to fit the extra slot), floppy, and CD-ROM for $25.  Figure that will give me something on which to install things which don't like AMD and/or Via.

Now where, oh where can I get Rhapsody DP2 for x86?

Jeremy Reimer

Sun Jun 2 15:10:21 2002

I'm in the process of trying to acquire Rhapsody DP2.  Apparently it's on Hotline somewhere.  It's utterly important that I evaluate this software.  :)
Magus

Mon Jun 3 15:30:53 2002

At the risk of seeming ignorant, remind me of what Rhapsody was/is?
Jeremy Reimer

Mon Jun 3 16:44:36 2002

Rhapsody was the code name for what became OSX, the merging of Apple and NeXT, planned for release in 1998. (!!)

Steve Jobs' plan was basically to throw away "Classic" and replace it with Rhapsody, which would only have the Cocoa (aka NeXTstep) API, and all old Mac apps would just run in a penalty box.

There were two developer preview releases of Rhapsody, DP1 (buggy, hardly any good) and DP2 (not bad according to sources)  But the interesting thing was this: both developer releases were available on Intel as well as MacPPC.

They were pretty much NeXTstep with a Mac "theme" (not all windows had the theme, for example the device manager is STRAIGHT out of NeXTstep), ie, single menubar, pinstripes, "Platinum" OS8-style appearance, etc.

I'm looking for a copy right now.  :)