Nuka, it's in the config file. I'd allocate 256M if I were you, to give you enough to run your host OS fast aswell.

PearPC RAM settings HOWTO

1) Open the Windows Calculator ..
2) Go to View ..
3) select "scientific" ..
4) make sure its at "Dec" ..
5) Now type whatever amount of memory you want ..
6) Click on "Hex", memorize that Hex value ..
7) Open your PearPC config file and go to the line where it says #memory_size=0x8000000
8) Remove that # sign and type that Hex value over 80

For example:

256(Dec) = 100(Hex)
So to get 256 megs of RAM you have to type -> memory_size=0x10000000

384(Dec) = 180(Hex)
So to get 384 megs of RAM you have to type -> memory_size=0x18000000

Hi Guys

im trying to install the language support on my pearpc osx panther, so when i put the panther cd 2 and i set the value of the config to 1 (that is the slave device), it cant boot, it stays at the begining without moving forward to boot the OS, however i want to install mac office 2004 can i do it in the same way if i find a solution!

thanx guys!!

I don't quite understand your situation...

Is Mac OS X properly installed yet? If so, boot off the hard disk image.

change slave device to 1 then change prom_bootmethod = "auto" to prom_bootmethod = "select"

now if you run pearpc .. you will see a prompt that will ask you which drive you want to boot from. Choose the HD and when OS X boots up u will see the 2nd CD on the desktop.

I finally got windows & OSX to see each other now i can shared files here there

Uh.. I think you might have spyware in Windows...

PearPC is giving me a great chance to learn Mac OS X before I switch over

he does have spyware .. check that stupid blue tool bar .. hate those sooo much ..

Very much tempted me into buying a mac, whats the bare minimum to be able to run OSX Panther?

@molox48 , how are you able to do this?

My iMac 333 runs 10.3 fine .. I have 384 megs of ram in it


wanna buy it ?

I'm interested

How much you lookin to get for it?

I would but itd be too much of a pain to ship to the UK, besides i like the look of iBook snow

oh .. u r in the UK .. your profile doesnt say that ..

well if I were you ..I'd buy something off ebay ..

Thanx!!!!!!

Emom, you really understood my problem!!


arigatougozaimasu!! lol

has anyone compiled this new version yet?

I've tried, but I'm getting some errors during the make install in cygwin

Ah, according to this, it's only for linux right now

god I wish they can release a DirectX version...he better get on it soon.

Dont flame me if its already been asked but its hard to find somthing in this thread.

I installed the first CD PearPC closed after he finished. I restarted and tells me theres no bootable partition.
I tried PearPC bootfix (http://s87840517.onlinehome.us/fixboot.html) changing the prom_env_machargs = "-s" but it doesnt seems to work...
Is there a way to fix this? I dont want to use darwin.

yo, can someone tell me if its possible to get networking in 10.1 yet?

Nevermind got it working!

Also writing this in Safari

Really nice!

I like the OSX default font!

How do you think it would fare on my 1.4 gHz with 256mb of ram. And yes I read about the emulation being 1/40 of what it should actually be. Will I get at least sub-par performance or usable enough to use?

right now i dont think its usable enough to use for anyone

its slower than my Apple II with os 7.1 and im running ppc on a p4c 3ghz, 512 ddr400

are you running this on a super computer? damn.

Hopefully all of this will create more switches, that way you can truly enjoy the mac experience

Haha no. It took me some time to post that.. Really frustrating actually

Wow the clock in OSX is too fast!
3 osx seconds = 1 real second...

The bouncing, progress bar, mouse cursors animations are too fast...

I'm gunna have to push my release to tomorrow :-(, I'm feeling sick and need sleep.

But, good news. I've added a wizard to create a hard disk image :-)!

cool. now if only it was faster...

so did my code help ya with that ?

Actually, no it didnt.. lol. I created a new HD image using fsutil (as i've described earlier), and looked at it in a text editor. Luckly the editor I used showed "null characters", and turns out thats all the image is ;-). So its a nice 5-7 line loop, and viola, image file created :-).

In other news, besides me feelign sick, my mother just went to the hospital with heart attack symptoms

I think I'm going to work a little harder now, just so I can stay up and wait for some answers. Who knows, there might be a build in a few hours :-).

Hope your Mum is alright man

TS

So I got my hands on a copy of panther and im trying to install it. It failed as an upgrade so I loaded the installer and use the disk utility to wipe the drive image and its installing. My question is is this, I know that panther seems to take a bit of time to install on x86 systems, but out of the all the people that were able to get it in, how many of you saw time frame's like 4 hours?? and did it actualy need that full 4 hours?? thanks in advance.

TS

took me about 4hrs both times i've installed.

Tekmaven: hope everything's alright dude cant wait to try out your release

Thankfully my mother is alright. She didn't suffer a heart attack: she had some misbeats that screwed many things up. She is now recovering, and is exepcted to even go to work this week :-0.

I ran into a little snag creating images... I was testing out using small sizes (1kb, 10kb, etc), and turns out when I tried making a 1gb image it was to much for a 32-bit Integer :-P. Took me like 10 minutes, but I just figured it all out (mega nested for loops :-).. four nested for loops!). Tomorrow you guys will get a screenie of the first (Work-in-progress) wizard ;-). Oh yeah, and you'll get Beta 1 ;-).

4 hours both times?? man i really wish that upgrade would have worked, that finished in an hour

TS

it takes 10 mins to make an 1 gig empty image ?? why so ? that python script takes like a sec ..

what upgrade?

Loaded the panther CD up after installing 10.1. i would have installed 10.3 right away, but i didnt have it until today. so when it gave me the choice to upgrade instead of stead of doing a whole install, i jumped at the chance. i read about the 4 and 5 hour install times and i just didnt want to deal with that. well the upgrade failed at the end. i came back from my evening coffee run and see "some errors occured during the install" or whatever it said. so now im doing a full install of 10.3 and waiting eagerly for it to install correctly.

TS

oh

hey should i go online with panther if i dont have a legit copy? it says that it's going to send out my registation info once i connect, and i dont want to get screwed or something

browse to the home folder, the reg info should be listed there, you can delete it. i did, though i never got online wtih 10.1 sadly.

TS

No, you should go to jail. lol

I have experienced a similar problem (identical problem), however with a clean installation of 10.3. It always fails to install (cleanly after performing a format/erase, using Mac OS X extended (Journaled)). I wonder what this problem is, because I have tried about six times now to install 10.3 - all resulting in "There were errors during installation. Please try installing again" (or something similar, see my post a few pages back).

Well the good news is that after a clean install i now get the message that states "your software was installed successfully." this made me extatic, but when i load ppc up, i just an exception error in the dos window and the os doesnt boot. new challange to deal with i guess.

TS

went through and changed the partition table around in the guide now things look somewhat normal... still waiting for boot though.

TS

EDIT: Writing this in Safari in 10.3, got everything to work and I'm going to sleep now :EDIT

Could you PLEASE select other function keys for this?
F9-F11 are by default used in Panther for Expose, and on iBooks some people (including me) use F12 as Eject.

I would suggest F5-F8, which I have never seen used in Mac OS (7.1-10.3).


Another topic: for those who are experimenting with 10.1 and networking. There is a driver for the RTL8139 for use with 10.1 on realtek's website. I used this driver to get 10.1 to work with a second NIC installed in a PowerMac 7600 (no, that is not a configuration supported by Apple...). Talking about slow configurations...
So, even if 10.1 does not support the 8139 out of the box, it might be possible to get networking to work. Just keep in mind that 10.1 is SLOWWWWW compared to 10.3.