Yah! Hurrah! I have completed the Rhapsody in a Bochs gude for your viewing pleasure. Here is the guide that took me some miserable days to complete. It is designed to assist you with installing Rhapsody OS in the Bochs emulator. The file is attached to the post. Click here to see an image of it in action.
Enjoy!



Matt

P.s. let me know what you think!

Thanks for the great guide, very detailed and good


max

if you got it running in bochs, we could technically run it on an xbox, ill take a peak in. I wonder if it can be done

Actually, it is possible. The XBOX is basically an intel-based machine.

I don't see how this wouldn't work in VMware. Colonels had a b/w display, but I think if you choose the right display options with color, it should get color in vmware too.

No you can't. I tried but the generic display driver doesn't want to cooperate.



Guru

Hey guys.... I would like feedback. You can post it here or on my blog. I just want to see how many people like the guide or not.



Matt

once i get broadband. ill try installign on my xbox, would be interesting

Hey... let me know how that goes! I am sure Bochs can work. You may need to do some variation of compiling though... at any rate, have fun!



Guru

bochs already runs on xboxes.
xbochs, its caled, or something

im just talking about gettign rhapsody running.
im not that 1337

Ha.. good one. Let us hope that all goes well. If you can, use my precompiled .bxrc file.



Guru

heh, rhapsody on an xbox... thats cool, i wonder how it would do...?


max

Yeah... me too.

i heard OSX was run on an xbox, might have been an april fools joke
through pearpc, if that works, this can

Sure.

osx running on the xbox was tru e btw. though really, that must be so damn slow

Oh sure. Emulation of even the G3 architecture on a PearPC is mighty slow, let alone G4 emulation which is a dog.

Guru

hey Guru.

Has the rhapsody.boxrc has disappeared from your site?

hey matt, if you need to host it somewhere else then ill upload it no prob, just lemme kno and thanks again


max

Hey... you guys are right. OrbitFiles, the site that I had the config file on, shut down or somthing. I'll use bwhsh8r's FTP server instead. Thanx bwhsh8r!



Guru

yep, thatll work, or ill upload it to megaupload or rapidhell or somthing like that.


thannks agian matt

max

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1ZVDSGPK

thats the file that was missing

thanks matt

max

Thanks, both of you

Now to find a bochs compiled for Intel OS X.... or find the configure option to compile it for intel instead of PPC grrrr

no problem, and good luck... http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/toppe...group_ideq12580 is what i found... but idk, ill keep lookin


max

That's only source code, windows binaries, redhat binaries, etc.. No OS X Universal Binary

My google searches have only yielded some french guy building 2.2 in universal, but his files are gone from his site.

Anyway, it's no big deal, I backed up my Rhapsody files to a CD and will look into it later on when I have more time - real life needs to take priority right now --- I'm moving to a new country!

Thanks for all the help, guys!!!

Well good luck on that one Patrix! Well wishes to you and your family!



Guru

thanks for the tut!!!

yea, what country are you moving to? and http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11177

thats the one

max

The UK, from Canada! And no family.. just me, going on a great adventure... (That's the reason I bought my current macbook, and i'm really glad I got it instead of that cheap Linux Acer laptop that was 700$ lol)



That is source code too I did manage to compile it, but it would always compile a PPC binary. Haven't figure out how to get an intel or universal binary yet, and I'm too lazy/busy currently to spend time figuring it out.

Patrix.

I tried installing it. After the install, I keep getting this error.





OS X can't run on an Xbox due to the lack of SSE2.

it can with an emulator like pearPC

It doesn't look like your Rhapsody CD is being recognized. You should see:and this isn't what I'm seeing in that shot.

This means that either the CD-ROM driver isn't working or the install CD is damaged (and unreadable).

nice, the uk, but cops in the uk are alot stricter... :-p have fun, and idk, thats all i found sorry




max

OOPS... I am sorry... apparently, it must be the CD image file that might be corrupted. The image I used was perfectly fine. If you want it, since you already have the legit media, let me know!

Guru

Any idea on where I can get some software that would run on Rhapsody? I know that there's a version of Lotus 123 that'll run on it.

There are tons of places you can get Rhapsody software.

That would be news to most everyone that ever used Rhapsody.

The last version of Lotus 1-2-3 that ran on anything similar to Rhapsody was a version for NEXTSTEP (and that version doesn't run in Rhapsody). There was never a port to Rhapsody that I heard of (and that would have been a major event if there was).

thanks for the detailed tutorial, however, after following the steps, i am stuck at the initial GUI screen where logs are being displayed...

the last lines of logs were...


and when I press ENTER, it just gives me another prompt


i tried a couple of combinations... sd0a, sd1, fd0, hd0... except for en0, it progressed a bit and reboots. i suspect en0 is the ethernet device...

anyhow... at this point, any ideas what should i do?

It looks like your system isn't registering the CD-ROM drive (which is a little different than colonels' problem above where the CD, or image of the CD, was damaged).

I haven't read Rhapsody Guru's guide, but are you sure that you selected the right driver for the IDE bus?

The same thing happened to me in Parallels, and, as RacerX said, the problem was because I moved the CD image. I repointed Parallels to where the image was, and rebooted Rhapsody and then it worked.

Oh... a word of advice... make sure you select the "Primary/Secondary IDE Controller" driver. It is on the LAST section of the drivers list.



Guru

@RacerX / Rhapsody Guru / Arix: thanks for the fast replies.
yup, i did choose the "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE/ATAPI Device Controller (v5.01)" when asked what driver to load.

@Arix: i have placed the ISO file in the Bochs installation folder "%programfiles%\bochs-2.3" and named it "rhapsody_dr2_x86.iso".



specs of my host pc are:
AthlonXP 2100+ / 1gb DDR400 / 320gb PATA HDD.

AH HA! I figured out your problem. The CD-ROM image is not mounted. Just click on the CD button on your toolbar, make sure you select the ISO image, check the "Inserted" check box, then click OK. Now click the reset button. ENJOY!

Guru

i was about to loose hope already. i did try loading other IDE drivers. good thing you've noticed that the cdrom image didn't load. whew!!! cool find, im now installing rhapsody!!! thanks a bunch!!! will post my progress... you really are a guru! thanks again.

UPDATE: i was able to install Rhapsody. Thanks again Rhapsody Guru! However, when I boot into the hard disk, I was prompted with a screen saying...
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UPDATE2: i think i forgot again to mount the ISO file. FYI, Bochs doesn't remember the mounting of the CD in ISO file...

Yes.. you are correct. Actually... that bxrc file you got should have automatically mounted the image for you at startup! Wierd.

Guru

was able to install Rhapsody, yipee!!!
however, i was presented with a wizard, and got stuck at this screen for a long time already... is this the SBOD (spinning ball of death) already? or patience still has to be applied here...



UPDATE: did a re-install anyways... however this time, i did the following:
- did not use LAN, which is logical as the I didn't specify any LAN adaptors during install
- did not assign a password for both my local user account and local administrator account

did a successful re-install. Thanks again to all especially to Rhapsody Guru! :-)

Hey thank you! Btw... be sure to read this thread (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=25827). It talks about a major change to your Rhapsody.bxrc file which enables you to experience fast VGA and processing speed. Remember to read the whole thread AND Don Luca's responses (since he graciously corrected me on something). ENJOY!

Guru

Umm... lol We (RacerX and I) figured out that the image wasn't mounting before Rhapsody did... I guess we just didn't say it in a clear enough way for you.

You owe the credit to us too

Yeah ARIX... but my english is better spoken than yours. He actually understood what I said! It's not what you say by itself that counts... its also how you convey the message. Not to mention the fact that, without my guide, you wouldn't have said a damn thing in the first place! My guide is what should be given due credit. Sorry to bust your balls there AriX.

Guru

ROFL, and Matt's vicious... the arch-nemisis thing anyone? lol



max

@AriX / RacerX : oops! my apologies. i didn't really realized that the ISO wasn't mounted until Rhapsody Guru pointed it out that I need to remount the ISO from Bochs. i re-read the thread and yup, it was pointed that a problem leading to not being able to mount the ISO is the cause thank you also. i hope, there's no hard feelings

@Rhapsody Guru: thank you again