REVENGE Posted July 2, 2006 Author Share Posted July 2, 2006 I just finished getting a copy of 10.4.6, but I havent installed yet and I don't even know if the HOTiSO one will work for my comp. Other than that, my Vista 5456 install just f***ed up, so I'm back to running XP and basically everything's a mess. Other than that, things are going just great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 my Vista 5456 install just f***ed up, so I'm back to running XP and basically everything's a mess. Other than that, things are going just great! LOL, you are an optimist... What next? Board burns out?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 http://www.bombich.com/mactips/bootx.html Creating a Mac OS X Bootable CD found this on wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 Yeah, I saw this the last time I was working on a LiveCD, but I didn't use them. I don't believe these instructions were updated for Tiger, but I think I'll give them a try this time, along with the other stuff I'm going to do. And btw, my 10.4.6 is up and running on VMWare. I'm not going to update to 10.4.7 FYI, since there is no Maxxuss Kernel Patch yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 I'm not going to update to 10.4.7 FYI, since there is no Maxxuss Kernel Patch yet.The last patched kernel is 10.4.4 .. so even when you run 10.4.6 you run with a 10.4.4 kernel. In other words: go for the 10.4.7 update - just for the sped up frameworks it's woth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 will this affect compatibility though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 4, 2006 Author Share Posted July 4, 2006 Oh damn, not since 10.4.4 eh? Sorry, I've seriously not touched OSX86 since the Maxxuss did the last 10.4.4 patch. As for upgrading to 10.4.7 well, I think that would be trivial and inconsequential in the grand scheme of things as far as I know right now, so I'll upgrade as soon as i can get a live cd running using 10.4.6. Besides, doing this {censored} is really annoying as I'm working through VMWare. Also, ext2fsx, the driver for using ext2 partitions in OSX, is broken. This forces me to "somehow" obtain a copy of MacDrive 6 for free and unlimited use , which is annoying. Has anyone gotten it to work on their systems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 Has anyone gotten it to work on their systems?With 'it' do you mean MacDrive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arenared Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 as dumb as this ma sound i dont think that this may get off the "ground" not much interest except on paper... anyone agree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 of course there is interest. have you not read all the posts in this topic? people have been wanting an os x live cd since the beginning. they even have a question about a live cd in the faq :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arenared Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 of course there is interest. have you not read all the posts in this topic? people have been wanting an os x live cd since the beginning. they even have a question about a live cd in the faq :S Oh i agree that the interest is there.. im talking about it WORKING. We all WANT this to work. But will it .. i doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 4, 2006 Author Share Posted July 4, 2006 Oh i agree that the interest is there.. im talking about it WORKING. We all WANT this to work. But will it .. i doubt it. LOL...*cries... The thing is that it WAS working, but f***ing DrX dissappeared without giving me the info as to HOW he made it work dammit. And sorry for not clarifying, I was talking about making ext2fsx work on 10.4.6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 4, 2006 Author Share Posted July 4, 2006 Alright folks, here comes the first status update: -The project has now fully resumed development under me. If anyone else wants to contribute, holler here and we'll collaborate. -I have a fully functional 10.4.6 installation working under VMWare on my AMD AthlonX2 3800+. This means that the system being used for development is AMD ONLY as it is using AMD patches. This means that if a live image is created and SHARED (which is actually unlikely at this point and time), it will only function on AMD systems as I have no Intel system to work with right now. -The project is now a LiveDVD project, because it is easier for me to work with and assuming that everyone who's here has access to a DVD burner and cheap DVD media, I guess no one will complain. -As of 2:43 PM, I am currently BUILDING the first test version of a LiveDVD. Once it is completed, it will be tested under VMWare and the results posted, so subscribe to this topic to get the latest news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 .. cool !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 Sounds cool maybe if you succed you can share the how to and somebody could create a livecd intel compatible. A LiveCd will be perfect for testing machine compability and for resurecting craqshed systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 4, 2006 Author Share Posted July 4, 2006 Status update 2: -LiveDVD Candidate 1 built and tested: FAILURE -Problems encountered: Packages that don't want to load, for odd reasons OSX {censored} about not being able to write to volume Above problems produce lockup, continuous error cycles which look like this: UPDATE: Next Candidate will switch to Mike's or OSX Installer's RC scripts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 5, 2006 Author Share Posted July 5, 2006 Status Update 3: -Looks like the main problem is that neither the default rc, Mike's rc, or the rc.cdrom scripts are adequate for a LiveDVD. I'm trying now to create my own, but I find that the process is a NIGHTMARE . So now, I need help with creating an rc file that works. EDIT: This is how far I got by forcing the use of rc.cdrom and the "Installation" path (Thats done by including CDIS and its parent directory Installation into /System/): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 is it possible to make the dvd think it's reading from a harddrive then writing to a ramdisk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 5, 2006 Author Share Posted July 5, 2006 is it possible to make the dvd think it's reading from a harddrive then writing to a ramdisk? Actually, I think the proper rc script needs to mount the filesystem as readonly, create ramdrives for folders such as /Volumes and /Var, and then launch the proper services. In fact, if someone could get BootCD and run it for me, then give me a copy of the /private directory, it'd be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 5, 2006 Author Share Posted July 5, 2006 Update 4 -This morning, I tried booting a hybrid Clone X / Cloned System image in VMWare. As of right now, I think that Clone X gets a lot of the rc correctly, but there are still a ton of read/write issues not being resolved. I'm going to continue to debug later, but in the end I believe I'll need to use a combination of sections from different rc scripts to create a working system. As for now, here's a video of how far the system boots using this latest approach: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1...&pr=goog-sl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 Project has moved to: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?ac...t=0#entry140393 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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