How many times have you installed NeXTSTEP, OpenStep and Rhapsody?

As the question goes says above: How many times have you installed NeXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody DR(X) ?

If you install create a virtual image via emulator, then copy it to actual hardware I would count that as two installs.
If you install it via network I would count each machine installed as one as well.
I'm pretty sure Rob would have a high install number or the highest and other people who do NeXT repairs.

EDIT 1: (Tuesday 27/May/2025) Added fail criteria, should have added voting options 101 -> 200, 201 -> 500, 501-> 1000.

I'm in the 11-20 now, it does get faster as I always emulate BusLogic SCSCI hardware in VirtualBox as the hardware as supported as standard and it is a big speed increase compared to the standard IDE install. I normally swap to IDE PIIX3 drivers once all the applications are set up.

Still need to find a faster way and need to start playing more with NFS, I have a feeling I'm missing out on a big speed increase by not using NFS.

I'll have to put myself down as 6-10. I have a pretty complete collection of virtual machines now covering every point release version from 0.8 through 5.1, but most of them started out as premade images from winworldpc or elsewhere.

Most of my installations have been for Rhapsody just because of that, although I did try to upgrade a Previous 3.3 VM to 4.0 PR1 on a Cube VM with a dimension board so I could get a good look at those sweet blue titlebars without 12-bit NeXTstation dithering.

...That ambition actually failed; I discovered that Previous can't handle running PR1 on a Cube. PR1 includes drivers for a NeXTdimension, so this was quite a surprise to me...

However I do have vague memories from the past of arguing extensively with VMware's buggy mouse behavior and the OS4.2 installer. So it's possible I'm forgetting a few attempts.

Still haven't tried putting 4.2 on my Thinkpad (T61, 2007ish) yet. I'm starting to worry the darn thing will break down when I do. I don't have any working floppy drives in the house (except maybe on my Amiga 2000?) so it will be a pain to move files around when the time comes.

Update: As of 2025-06-10, I am now around 25 installs thanks to PR1 being a mess on x86.

Only twice for me, so far. The first time was on Previous prior to getting my NeXTCube, and then on the bluescsi when the machine arrived. I haven't had need to reinstall yet.

if failed installs count... 30-50

I am in the 31-50, but not sure, might be even more :)

I guess it was two-third real machines, one-third virtual.

Quote from: Apple2guy on May 24, 2025, 05:00:35 AMif failed installs count... 30-50

How far did you get with the failed attempt? If you managed to install the essentials package, I'd say that would count.

most failed at partitioning or formatting.. At that time I didn't understand the ide driver has the 8 gb limit.

I think pretty much everyone has 10-20 install failures that fell apart due to some kind of hardware limitation befuddlement. It took me like five tries just to figure out the right combination of drivers when I was putting in DR1. If we include that data... well, the first four options on the poll might as well not exist!