luisito Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I've been reading some messages on installing OSX for Intel on regular PCs. Is it possible to install OSX on opendarwin instead of doing a fresh install? I mean, if a have a fully working install of Opendarwin in my PC it might be easier just to copy the OSX files and configure it as if I were installing GNOME or KDE. I imagine that OSX is much more complex than GNOME or KDE but.... I posted this messages in *nix because I'm sure people here know much more about OSX and Darwin than people that's just trying to use the patched OSX for Intel DVD... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockoTDF Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I would imagine that Aqua (the OS X interface) has more to it than just copy and pasting files around and stuff,(like Kernel extensions) so I doubt its just possible to load it as if it is KDE and Gnome. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-150548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weebs Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I was thinking about this yesterday, can a darwine/osx expert tell us of the possibilities? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-159888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I'm not an expert in any way, but I can tell you guys that such thing is not possible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-159908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbeehre Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 it is possible and it what we did when 10.4.1 came out..... but i wouldnt recomend it. There is to much mucking around and in the end your system isnt as stable as a regular install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-159912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenVa Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 It is most defently possible... look at a 10.4.1 install guide. Before the installer was patched people used deadmoo's image which was made by installing darwin and pasting files and editing abunch of {censored}. You could try it if you like... but you would need to patch alot stuff by yourself... in the end it would be way easyer to just download a 10.4.6 install dvd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-159973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 It is most defently possible... look at a 10.4.1 install guide. Before the installer was patched people used deadmoo's image which was made by installing darwin and pasting files and editing abunch of {censored}. You could try it if you like... but you would need to patch alot stuff by yourself... in the end it would be way easyer to just download a 10.4.6 install dvd. agreed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-160017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob7 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Hmm... How about doing this with other Unix versions. Maybe FreeBSD or Linux? How dependant is the UI on the underlying OS, exactly? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-160052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyBrian Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 considering aqua isn't open source, to install it on freebsd or unix would be nearly impossible. you'd need to write a compatibility layer. afaik, the posix specification only refers to what's needed in order to compile (as in the libraries etc have to be the same on all posix compatible operating sysems.) because of this, freebsd and linux and nearly all other operating systems are extremely different from osx in terms of how hardware etc is interfaced. in other words, you'd need to write a program providing an implementation of osx's libraries etc. which would in the end be very hard. it is not impossible, however, and it wouldn't be too slow, either. windows is probably around as complex in its apis etc as osx and yet we have wine which is essentially what i'm talking about except it's a windows lib implementation, rather than an osx one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-160082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLux Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 considering aqua isn't open source, to install it on freebsd or unix would be nearly impossible. you'd need to write a compatibility layer. afaik, the posix specification only refers to what's needed in order to compile (as in the libraries etc have to be the same on all posix compatible operating sysems.) because of this, freebsd and linux and nearly all other operating systems are extremely different from osx in terms of how hardware etc is interfaced. in other words, you'd need to write a program providing an implementation of osx's libraries etc. which would in the end be very hard. it is not impossible, however, and it wouldn't be too slow, either. windows is probably around as complex in its apis etc as osx and yet we have wine which is essentially what i'm talking about except it's a windows lib implementation, rather than an osx one. Well, some work has been done a long time ago… If someone wants to resurect it : http://hcpnet.free.fr/applebsd.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22699-osx-on-opendarwin/#findComment-167706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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