I just got a mini, as several of my threads in the forum already outline. I want/need to use several OS9 apps on it that run acceptibly under Classic in Panther. I'd like to have a virtual machine for these apps as I can save everything on a disc image and have a very easy backup of all things OS 9 on DVD-R.
Mac-on-Mac looks incredibly promising, but with on sound, Altivec support being buggy, and no USB/firewire support, it's just not ready yet. I wish I could help the guy doing the port, but my last coding experience was in the spring of 1995 and it was in PASCAL in DOS6
I downloaded Mandriva 2005 LE, burned it, and installed it on the mini and much to my elation, it installed and all the hardware in my mini is supported (and since I don't have AE or BT, I can avoid those issues altogether) and after a little fiddling with the setup, startmol -X booted my Panther partition. Sweet. Just running startmol produced an error that it couldn't find a bootable partition, which I found surprising since Classic is installed and there's a System Folder right on the root of the partition. No matter, I pop in an OS9.2.1 retail disc leftover from when I finally upgraded to 9.2.1 on my wife's B&W and ran startmol --cdboot. It started up and for a few seconds, I had the folder with the blinking ? in it, then I saw the happy Mac.......and 25 minutes later, I STILL see the happy Mac. I think it's frozen but I want to let it run as long as possible to give it the benefit of the doubt. Boo, hiss, I say.
So my question:
Does anyone know if it's possible to install Mac-on-Linux for use of OS 9 on hardware that doesn't normally use OS 9?
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