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#16 10-23-2005, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by justinwrock

I am running OSx on my box.

Still is a little bit choppy, but hell it runs. Right now, I am typing this on an OSxPC. IT is cool, but once I get the ATI drivers finalized, it all over. No more windoze for me. I used the "deadmoo" imgae to get mine all setup, and I had little to no problems getting it to work.

HAHAHA, If i get the ATI drivers loaded in, I think I may be trading the OSxPC for the shiny new G% my parents have.

Yea I had some work to do on the winders box today and the log said my last log in was Sept 6. It was having all kinds of winders problems like can't accessing certain websites (I have no clue what it is I've scrubbed with every known trojan, antispy and virus sweep known) other people have had the problem since the release of SP2 but nobody has an answer.

Any who I think I'm going to dual boot that puter with the OS X and call it good.

Thats my rant.

Ashman · #17 10-25-2005, 03:48 AM

I think I used the deadmoo image too I forgot exactly.

ATI Drivers would be great.

I am debating on building an osx box but not for a while... one that will run everything nicely and natively, which uses the intel chipset that everything works on..

med, Shoot me an e-mail w124mbz at gmail

I can help you get various osx86 images...

It still runs pretty good on my system even without the vid card drivers and the sse3 support.. (damn older p4 28 HT cpu...)

coldwar · #18 10-25-2005, 09:52 AM

I think I may have uncovered the cause for the bizarre behaviour observed with Fedora 4-64 installed on my AMD-64 PC. There is a "wrapper" required to allow 32-bit Linux applications to run. Here's a quote from Ubuntoo-

"the linux32 tools allows 64bit systems with support for 32 bit applications to set the execution domain to the 32 bit native type. For instance, on an ia64 machine, commands run with this wrapper will think the machine type is i386, as returned by uname -m."

So far, all I've managed to do is to try and determine if an -RPM version of this thing was already supplied by Fedora, so I searched Red Hat's repository for an equivalent, and once I found it, I tried running an install command. It responded with "already installed", although with Linux that doesn't always mean much- there's often a lot of fussing involved to getting things from being installed to actually working.

I think I'm close- with a few hundred more keystrokes, I might just get there!

Dave