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I'm against pirating, but this is just for experimenting. Brush it off.

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Anyway, the instructions on the main PearPC site are very, VERY vague. When I first read it, I thought you NEEDED Mandrake to run this thing. I don't know if it's the poor English, or a poor translation, but I was thinking about just writing a real down-to-earth page for this project and giving it to them.

Mike

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ok, I have Darwin installed (which I just realized wasn't necessary)...

My OSX cd image is a .toast file... but ppc doesn't seem to be able to boot it. it doesn't give correct partitions (ie, it only shows 3 partitions on the disk). Do I need to convert it to a regular iso or something? How would I do that on my PC (I'm at work so I don't have my Mac with me)?

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Dude... Why do you feel you have to be such a busy-body, and care about everyone who dosnt have a legal copy of osx...

look come on leave him alone he said he took is chill pill so no point of going on the subject again if you want to have an offf topic chat with him leave him a pm

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Hey guys im just instaling mandrake 9.1 ppc edition...

going well for now....

but when i've tried booting darwin ive got this line

"Waiting for root device"

it was stuck on this line...

like this

"Waiting for root device"

"Waiting for root device"

"Waiting for root device"

"Waiting for root device"

for the all night...

any1 have a solution?

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is there anyway to speed up the ram and i give it some more ram?

You actually got it to run something at the desktop? I hadn't heard a report of the desktop being "functional". Cool!

As far as RAM: I had already posted this:

#

# Main memory (default 128 MiB)

# must be >= 64 MiB

#

memory_size=0x08000000

If you use the calculator that is in XP set it for the Scientific view... Take the amount of RAM that you want to emulate and multiply it by 1048576 (1024x1024) and then hit the "Hex" radio button, it will give you a hexidecimal equivelant for the ammount of RAM (in bytes)

eg: 256x1048576=268435456 (hex=10000000 or 0x10000000)

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There is another problem: Adter booting, this thing here appears: ppc6.jpg.

So far so good... But now, If I work with the mouse the following actions werde done:

- Closes the window

- Bar on the top goes away

- Bar reappears

- Window reappears

- Da Capo (another round... and anothher).

Where is the problem??

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well, here's where i am right now...

it's running surprisingly fast. thank god for dual cpus (even though they're only 1.4GHz)

I set the processor affinity for ppc.exe to only use cpu1...leaving my other processor (cpu0) free to handle everything else, and have cpu1 focus on ppc

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