mac os 10.3 "panther" on pear pc(pics inside)

mail2and · 15-03-2005, 01:26 PM

Hi,

i tried to run mac os 10.3 "panther" on my PEE CEE using pear pc... i tried cherry os.. but since cherry os only suppots .iso images... and i had a .img image.... i decided to use pear pc

i used this pearpc control panel..... and voila! i was on mac!

mac os is so easy that even a newbie will be able to work on it better than windows... also we all know how much windows and m$ a$$ it kicks with its grafix

.. was dumb-folded by the 3d-user switching

it was just awwsmm! now this justifies me shifting to a mac

after say 1 mth

SCREENIES:

1. mac os booting up... ugh chinese!???!?

2. i was so impressed by the user friendliness of a mac.... having worked on jaguar for a bit... i kinda had an idea abt selecting languages.... so i cud change the language to english.... but to my surprise.. mac os supports input with languages like gujrathi, hindi, marathi, tamil, oriya!?!?

3. now i decided to play around.... tried to change the resolution via the mac system config.... to my surprise!!! it infact enlarged the pear pc window

4. now tried to play songs.... then realized.. duh! i was on virtual machine

will update this thread... currently am trying to emulate using g4 and am trying to active the network.... g4 emulation will make it quite fast... and if i can activate the network.... well

Sourabh · 15-03-2005, 02:51 PM

whoa cool ....

so have u changed ur plans to get a mac-mini now ??

mail2and · 15-03-2005, 03:15 PM

actually soura.... i'll get the mac mini... but i did this to show dad MAC os 10.... that'll induce him to buy it faster pour moi

Sourabh · 15-03-2005, 03:19 PM

thts blackmailing...!!!

mail2and · 15-03-2005, 04:14 PM

yeah

btw i got the g4 emulator... now my athlon 1800+ detects as mac g4 775 mhz

... ideally p4 2 ghz and athlon 2000+= mac g4 1.25 ghz

g4 emulator... the un-official pear pc... is a lot faster... but quite un-stable...

mail2and · 15-03-2005, 05:33 PM

ok i did it! am running mac os under g4 emulation..... now i get much smoother performance... and just now.... windows crashed... while mac even on virtual machine under a totally different architecture.. hasnt crashed....

Screenies

1. Confirms that am running Athlon Xp 1800+ as Mac g4

2. Good ol' IE! Erm.... bugs and more bugs

3. a really really cool activity manager.... its so easy to understand what app is consuming what amt. of memory... so unlike WindWOES

wow man! i m enthralled!

still trying to get lan to work

theraven · 15-03-2005, 06:16 PM

niceee....
im gonna try it too
( yeah right

)
hehehe .... looks sweet tho !

digen · 15-03-2005, 07:37 PM

Sweet & slick man andy !
By the way you have posted it seems worth a try.Although I know you are a macboy but that is a different story.

Deep · 15-03-2005, 10:34 PM

looks tooooooooo cooooooool man

post some more screenies..

specifically about

my comp
my docs (my pics)
control panel

mail2and · 15-03-2005, 10:52 PM

aye aye sir! here in a short while

mail2and · 15-03-2005, 11:22 PM

Screenies

1. control panel(sys pref) watch out for the top bar changing with each application...

2. the main interface(like my comp)

3. the my docs folder(user)

Deep · 15-03-2005, 11:26 PM

thanks man..

looks suweeet

15-03-2005, 11:40 PM

Quite nice

We got a PowerPC G4 based imac, the old one with round base in our insti, but only our teachers use it, we are not allowed, but I did managed to work on it a bit, dam, I envy my teachers

andy is quite right, mac is easy, alothough not that much for a power user, due to software & hardware availability for PC/Windows, the interface is Application based, not like Windows XP which is task based

Task based

Apps are launched depending on your task

App based

U have to launch app for the task to do

The problem here is that, we, techies know Mac, how it looks etc, but a typical windows user might get confused with that, what if he doesn't know that he needs to open iphoto to view images or VLC to Play VCDs

everything has it's short cummings, the iMac I worked on was good but I missed a lot of windows shortcust on it even on same photoshop CS & Premiere pro

Now, one of the most important things with an OS, application installation, my take

1) Mac wins, just drag & drop, it's done

2) Windows with NSIS or Windows installer, these are my prefered installaers, as they revart the PC back to it's original state when the app is uninstalled

3) Linux, useless, a lot of dependencies, & removing a 50 kb chinese language file in mandrake 10.1 removed whole openoffice.org

Mac mini = 32k for 1.25 GHz + Monitor

mail2and · 16-03-2005, 11:07 AM

pallap.... its like the screen(gui) turns around when users switch... ultra cool!

Sourabh · 16-03-2005, 11:37 AM

well for now i dun have any doubts in saying

Anand Mac Batra

rajkumar_personal · 16-03-2005, 11:47 AM

Amazin' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U Sure try out new things 2 the fullest !

mail2and · 22-03-2005, 07:44 PM

did some one try it out? i can't get the dvd-rom to work

and the network too

vasanth_12345 · 22-03-2005, 11:26 PM

Man do u know where to get mac,and peer pc or can i install directly on to my system like winxp.I want an os that is virus free

mail2and · 23-03-2005, 12:13 AM

also there are varius modded versions of pear pc... i used the athlon xp modded one..its quite buggy... but the fastest i encountered till now....

harmax · 26-03-2005, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Indyan

U cant install it directly on x-86 architecture.
You need an emulator like Peer PC for that.
And you would get MAC OS cd when you buy a mac computer.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

and mac os doent come free.....

((( theres even dearth of pirated copies atleast to try it out)))):no harm meant!!!!!!

26-03-2005, 05:38 PM

U can get MacOS X retail for $ 130

hey, andy, good news, apple insider is saying that Tigar will be released in April 1, before it's original schedule

mail2and · 26-03-2005, 09:12 PM

yes i know that...

steve jobs will announce it on april 1... which incidently is apple's foundation day.... it will be available in retail stores by 15th of april.... they will update the gfx card and ram in some models for no extra cost... so i guess i'll wait till june to buy mah mac mini/iBook.....

Choto Cheeta · 22-10-2005, 02:53 AM

@mail2and

hay... can u share the steps to installetion?? i have a OS x tiger installetion DVD.... (which came with my FRNDs MAC system)... now i did went through the PearPC site... there they r asking user to obtain the MAC HDD image... which i cant have... now how can i use this 2.6 GB DVD (which windows cant read but ISO extraing software can... & can extract it as a single ISO..)... to install that OS...

mario_pant · 22-10-2005, 07:39 AM

mann... i think it had been discussed already as it has been here for soo long.....
i've been using this since last year.... no LAN yet or net yet.... as there is very less harware support right now!

and u should try the other builds like the parasys build... it is much fater and has a better core...

mail2and · 22-10-2005, 09:55 AM

I've officially switched over

just got my mac the other day

it's awesome! looks are just 5%.. the functionality is gr8!

mario.. i got LAN working perfectly.. on prasys build as well... u have to use the "Tap" drivers i think and CCproxy to share the net connection..

@saurav- http://wiki.pearpc.net/index.php/Ins...WithoutPanther here is the link to install using the dvd...

Choto Cheeta · 29-10-2005, 08:57 AM

hay guyess i got stuck on a stape.. pls help me out..

well with a BIG thnx to mail2and for that guide... i was able to install it.. (all though the whole process took 8h excluding painfull partition delay)

see here,

Starting MAC installetion...

Now, Main installer windows,

Painfull harddisk partitioning,

Then Running the 6h installetion

Finally after 6h its done (atlist then i thought that)

so far it was though slow... but things ware happening...

but i got stuck it this satpe of that guide

Quote:

Originally Posted by guide

The installer will start again, but this time, after the language selection, do not install but run the Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After choosing your HD-image, make "Disk Utility" fix it by first clicking Repair Disk and then Repair Disk Permissions. When it is done with that, leave the installer by quitting "Disk Utility" and choosing Startup Disk from the "Utilities" menu, where you select your HD-image as boot device

i got stuck on the "Repair Disk Permissions" option... MAC is taking the command... but nothing is happening even waiting for 5h... screen just shows that Reparing Disk permission... thats it... nevver shows messege Done...

mail2and · 29-10-2005, 02:38 PM

I haven't seen the guide yet.. but we repair disk permissions when os x messes up a bit...

I'll check the guide and reply here...

yeah pearpc is slow.. a 2000+ will emulate like 660 mhz g3/g4 with very low fsb

EDIT-

So i guess continue the installation without that... you can always repair disk permission from OS X itself(Applications/Utilities). Try to install without that.. if it doesn't install that way.. then u gotta wait till it completes the thing...