I'm trying to install NS 3.3 on my intel Mac using Parallels, but the OS CD won't mount. OS X doesn't recognize it as having any mountable filesystems. I've tried using dd to make an .iso image and then mounting that, but no joy.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this, aside from buying a second copy?
Thanks,
mbuss
Quote from: "mbuss"I'm trying to install NS 3.3 on my intel Mac using Parallels, but the OS CD won't mount.
This is right, MacOSX isn't able to mount NeXtstep CDs. You have to boot your Parallels from the NeXTstep Floppys, if ever Parallels will work with the NeXTstep supplied drivers for reading IDE and CD-ROM.
Okay, so maybe I'm not hosed. I have successfully booted from the floppy, but the install hangs when it's looking for the CD.
Perhaps I should bring this to the virtualization forum and see what happens. Thanks.
Make an ISO image out of your cd, and point parallels to that. It worked for me to install OpenStep 4.2 in parallels. I never tried NS, so your mileage may vary.
Chef
Is it possible under osx to give custom mount commands? I know that some versions of mount will support the next filesystem, at least in a read only matter. Here is a section from the man page for mount on my kubuntu system that talks about the NeXT filesystem support.
Mount options for ufs
ufstype=value
UFS is a file system widely used in different operating systems.
The problem are differences among implementations. Features of
some implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognize
the type of ufs automatically. That's why the user must specify
the type of ufs by mount option. Possible values are:
old Old format of ufs, this is the default, read only.
(Don't forget to give the -r option.)
44bsd For filesystems created by a BSD-like system
(NetBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD).
sun For filesystems created by SunOS or Solaris on Sparc.
sunx86 For filesystems created by Solaris on x86.
hp For filesystems created by HP-UX, read-only.
nextstep
For filesystems created by NeXTStep (on NeXT station)
(currently read only).
nextstep-cd
For NextStep CDROMs (block_size == 2048), read-only.
openstep
For filesystems created by OpenStep (currently read
only). The same filesystem type is also used by Mac OS
X.
Using this command, I was able to mount the next cd in kubuntu.
mount -t ufs -o ufstype=nextstep-cd /dev/cdrom /nextcd
Chef
Quote from: "nextchef"Is it possible under osx to give custom mount commands? I know that some versions of mount will support the next filesystem, at least in a read only matter.
For whatever reason, OS X doesn't support the flavour of UFS used on the NeXT CD-ROMs (UFS has many variants). The Linux NeXT UFS CD-ROM support works fine for me, too.
-- cuby