Install of OPENSTEP 4.2 Developer fails on VMware 10/Linux

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Title: Install of OPENSTEP 4.2 Developer fails on VMware 10/Linux
Post by: petter on January 09, 2015, 12:20:57 PM
Hi all!

I'm trying to get OS4.2 going in a vm. Using drivers from beta drivers disk 1 (I've tried several of them), I get OS to recognize the CD and the hard drive image, but it fails on init. I get the message that mach_init fails with errno 2, then init fails with the same error.

Any ideas, or guides on how to get it going? Or should I use virtualbox or qemu/kvm?

Thanks for any advice,

Petter
Title: Re: Install of OPENSTEP 4.2 Developer fails on VMware 10/Lin
Post by: Rob Blessin Black Hole on January 09, 2015, 03:54:23 PM
Quote from: "petter"Hi all!

I'm trying to get OS4.2 going in a vm. Using drivers from beta drivers disk 1 (I've tried several of them), I get OS to recognize the CD and the hard drive image, but it fails on init. I get the message that mach_init fails with errno 2, then init fails with the same error.

Any ideas, or guides on how to get it going? Or should I use virtualbox or qemu/kvm?

Thanks for any advice,

Petter
Try setting it up for DOS instead or Linux and it should work, I have not tried VM Ware 10 !  Best regards Rob  Blessin
Title: Install of OPENSTEP 4.2 Developer fails on VMware 10/Linux
Post by: mikeboss on January 09, 2015, 05:56:00 PM
I just booted OS 4.2 in VMware Fusion 7.1.0 and VMware Player 7.0.0 on Windows: both seemed to work flawless.
Title: Install of OPENSTEP 4.2 Developer fails on VMware 10/Linux
Post by: petter on January 10, 2015, 04:52:18 AM
Thanks for the advice!

I managed to get the OS installed, but on reboot it fails when trying to mount root. Did I make the disk image too big - it's set to 4GB? Or maybe I gave it too much memory, 256MB? I was feeling generous :)

Petter
Title: Install of OPENSTEP 4.2 Developer fails on VMware 10/Linux
Post by: mikeboss on January 10, 2015, 05:22:04 AM
to be on the save side, I'd create a VM with a 2.0 GB disk and 128 MB ram.

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