Scott Henson wrote:
I work for the csee department here and we have tons of hardware laying around including some old powermac 7500 and a quadra something or another. Im pretty sure we have some hardware laying around somewhere that will have hardware that is supported by X86 darwin, otherwise I think Im going to try to install on the powermac or quadra(no clue what this is) but I hear that installing on oldworld powermacs is a bitch and I would rather do it on the plentiful x86 hardware we have here.
Well, installing a recent version of Darwin on an OldWorld system is difficult to impossible - the current boot stuff (which is what OS X also uses) only works on NewWorld systems, so it's be a real pain to get Darwin on such systems. Certainly won't work on anything that doesn't have at least a G3 CPU in it. The hardware requirements are generally the same as OS X - less memory and disk required, but same CPU family.
A Quadra, on the other hand - that's a 68k CPU, and Darwin will definitely _not_ run on such a system. Sorry, no dice. As Brad Boyer mentioned, the debian-68k list would be an appropriate place to ask about it. Or if you'd rather run a BSD, www.netbsd.org might be more appropriate for you.
-- Derrik Pates dpates@dsdk12.net