I thought OPENSTEP had a 4gb partition limit? I popped a 6gb IDE drive in my x86 machine and tried installing OPENSTEP 4.2 on it. OS saw the hdd correctly, formatted it, and installed itself.
Shows me having a 6.2gb partition (size of disk) and I have like 5.7gb free showing in workspace...
I thought this wasn't supposed to happen? :shock:
8gb I thought.
oh... Well that would explain it :]
I indeed thought OS 4.2 had a 4gb limit, NS 3.3 is supposed to be 2gb.
I have a 160gb ATA drive in my machine,I created an 6gb partition and OS installed the first part, when I rebooted and it wanted to install the languages and additional SW it said there was 0.9mb of free space and it required 1mb, nothing I could do would install. I deleted the partition and created a 4000mb one and everything went fine. Aside from the obvious as far a OS is concerned a 6bg drive must be different to a 6gb partition?
Quote from: "helf"
I thought this wasn't supposed to happen? :shock:
It's Unix. You get all the rope you need to hang yourself. Fill the partition up with files beyond the 4GB level and see what happens. This has been tested and reported on csn.* with bad results so expect problems now or when you can least afford them.
ew, if you shutdown improperly, it dies. no ifs, ands, or buts. It is DEAD. Wants you to manually run fsck and then it finds gobs of errors it can't fix.
I tried twice. I think I'll stick to 4gb partitions...
Quote from: "helf"ew, if you shutdown improperly, it dies. no ifs, ands, or buts. It is DEAD. Wants you to manually run fsck and then it finds gobs of errors it can't fix.
I tried twice. I think I'll stick to 4gb partitions...
Yeah, you took that rope & ran as far as you could, didn't you. ouch. ;-) Seriously, I hope you didn't have a lot of stuff installed on the system yet. I agree w/ Brams & cubist. Stick to the 4 gig partitions. I hate the limit myself! When I get into a compiling mode, I tend to start running out of space pretty quick. lol. Then I have to start cleaning up/archiving other projects till I'm done w/ the current one. But, the e smart thing to do is setup an spare linux/*bsd box & just export a large NFS share. I finally did that off one of my Sun boxes.
Well, I had a CD of your NS packages sitting next to the machine about to be used when the power flickered... :P So, no, I hadn't done much of anything to it yet. Currently have BeOS R5 installed. I didn't realize that is mym achine was 100% BeOS compatible :)
I have OS 4.2 & BeOS 5, 5.1 & Zeta 1.21 & 1.5 installed as well as Win2K. I have a few more spare primary partions ready to install BSD, Open Solaris and Linux when I'm ready and have time. BootitNG is a very good boot loader and allows many primary partitions on the same drive. Just use the OPENSTEP installer to make a boot partition and OS partition, install OS 4.2 on it's own partition and then when thats done use BootitNG to make as many other partitions as you need. It even supports USB and Firewire booting.
I'm running on a dual Pentium 3, Intel 440BX with AWE64 Gold and Matrox G400 and 1gb ram of which OS 4.2 sees 512mb and one CPU.
oh nice :) I'll give that a shot.
Quote from: "brams"I have OS 4.2 & BeOS 5, 5.1 & Zeta 1.21 & 1.5 installed as well as Win2K. I have a few more spare primary partions ready to install BSD, Open Solaris and Linux when I'm ready and have time. BootitNG is a very good boot loader and allows many primary partitions on the same drive. Just use the OPENSTEP installer to make a boot partition and OS partition, install OS 4.2 on it's own partition and then when thats done use BootitNG to make as many other partitions as you need. It even supports USB and Firewire booting.
I'm running on a dual Pentium 3, Intel 440BX with AWE64 Gold and Matrox G400 and 1gb ram of which OS 4.2 sees 512mb and one CPU.
You guys just have to keep bringing up more & more older/cooler OS'es don't you! ROFL. LMAO. I booted up my Zeta 1.5.1 the other night. I'm going to drop it back to 1.21 and make another partition for good ol' BeOS also. That reminds me, I need to boot up my other BeOS box. It has all my archives on it. :D I think I'll end up making use of that Thinkpad 560Z after all. Brams, hit me up on IM next time you see me on. Sorry I missed the last few times. Works has been extremely busy this last 2 weeks. Take care.
hehe :P
At least I haven't brought up my fixation with Lisp Machines...
oops. :D
I forgot how quick BeOS is/was. It's /feel/ is also totally different from every other OS I have ever used. I can't put my finger on it, but it just feels funky to use.
brams --> that sounds like coolest damned computer (my inner dork drools with envy)... with that many OS's loaded up I am impressed that you get ANYTHING done. Personally I think I'd be too busy playing... and I would love to see your boot loader screen, just for sheer entertainment!
helf --> BeOS did / does have a very different feel. Personally I like the lack of a lot of extras running around. It just seemed like a very visually clean and simple interface without being poor quality or cheesy. As for speed, how can you dislike an OS that runs a single CPU that nicely... let alone one that can use up to 16 at once.
BeOS was my primary OS for sometime (maybe two years +/-) a few while back. Even under OS X, there are days I miss the simplicity and power of BeOS 5.1...
I recall years ago I had a PM 7300 with a 300mhz PowerLogix G3, I got BeOS 4 installed and then ran the cube demo and dropped a movie on each face of the cube and then me and my friends where blown away when the cube rotated in 3d space playing 6 movies. That was really amazing. I was gutted Apple never let Be in on the secrets needed to get it running on G3's.
Round about the same time Computer Warehouse in the UK started to sell BeBoxes and I tried to buy one but they where out of stock. It took me close to 7 years to actually get my hands on one.
Blackcube has or had a quad CPU Daystar Genesis MP960+ running BeOS, that must've been so cool.
The PC I made cost me peanuts, I researched it quite a bit and found that what suited OPENSTEP best was also very good for BeOS, the thing only cost me about 200 bucks to make and that includes a pretty decent case and PSU. I think I paid 40 bucks for the mobo, ram and CPU's of eBay. I'd like to get a 440GX with 900mhz PIII Xeons the ones which have the big caches, 2mb I think.
I'll post a screenshot (might have to be a photo of the screen not sure if BootitNG can grab the screen)
I bought a 17" MBP recently but hardly ever use it as I spend most of the time playing on this el-cheapo PC....
I'm actually looking to pickup a new MacBook in the near future (my home gear is a B&W G3... a little dated). What I'm really looking forward to is running a few virtual systems (NS 3.3, BeSO, DOS, not sure what else). It'll be entertaining to have a BeOS or NeXT system with me =)
Quote from: "helf"hehe :P
At least I haven't brought up my fixation with Lisp Machines...
Do you have one? I always wanted one (and a Xerox Star) but I don't know why.
All this talk of the BeOS brings back fond memories, I wish I knew what I did with my Be t-shirt.
Unfortunately, no. I've been scheming for years to get my hands on one. Keep failing :( I just found a guy with an Uber rare MacIvoryIII for sale with nice host system and lots of software... :(
It's exactly what I want... But I don't have ~3500 to plop down :'(
I just finished setting up my BeOS box at work. Brings back fond memories of using BeOS exclusively for almost 3 years way back. I'm just happy that most of what I do on computers I can do on things like NeXTs and BeOS machines easily. Heck, I could get by on pretty much anything with an ethernet/apple talk/decnet connection ;)
p.s.
well, technically it wasn't "for sale". I spent two months hunting the web for one and found a guy on an OOOLD page that had one and emailed him asking about it. Amazingly enough, the email address was still good and he said he didn't have much time to use it anymore and would be willing to sell it for a proper price (3500... which its completely worth...).
oh well. :'(
oh, I would also LOVE a Xerox Star/Alto. That's on my short list of must have hardware :)