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Re: Installation of OS X 10.5.6 on a PC

Jared — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:58:24 -0000

I don't know if you will look at this post at all, but I have the same mobo and videocard as you and was wondering if you have tried getting 10.6 to work yet, and also wondering if you could possibly email me the kext files I would need to get things up and running. Any info would be amazing.
Thanks in advance.

Re: Installation of OS X 10.5.6 on a PC

entmike — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:22:10 -0000

I'm back in town, let me know if you still need them.

Re: Installation of OS X 10.5.6 on a PC

entmike — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:21:29 -0000

Intel 85662

Re: Installation of OS X 10.5.6 on a PC

entmike — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:20:47 -0000

I ended up not using a Boot 132 ISO and downloaded the iPC 10.5.6 distro to get me started. Good tip on the booting from a USB DVD drive, thanks!

Re: Installation of OS X 10.5.6 on a PC

Mike — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:41:29 -0000

What premade boot 132 iso did you use for this board? Also, If you try booting with a USB DVD drive (put an old IDE drive in an external case) you can get around the need for a sata DVD drive.

Re: Installation of OS X 10.5.6 on a PC

James — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:30:48 -0000

Also what driver did you pick to get the lan to work?

Re: Installation of OS X 10.5.6 on a PC

James — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:27:25 -0000

Thanks for the great write up, I have the same mobo as you, what files can I download to get the audio working?

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 1 (Installation)

sapmdmtutorials — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:12:31 -0000

Grete Post

Re: 2008++;

dpritchett — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:32:55 -0000

I imagine with Oracle buying Sun you'll only see more Java at work. Our IT staff already loves to manage Solaris+Oracle systems. How is your Java training going?

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 2.1 (Configuration)

entmike — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:40:52 -0000

Also, you may need to delete the following registry keys that the registry cleaner supplied does not remove:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SAP folder
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\SERVICESS\SAP *
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\SERVICESS\XSERVER

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 2.1 (Configuration)

Arun — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:22:22 -0000

Hi Vinay,
While installing the trial version read the last line of the instalation, there u are asked to clear the some registry. Go by it...u will be able install again.

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 2.1 (Configuration)

bmelton — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:43:19 -0000

Depends on how you boot it, naturally.

If you still want it to run atop your Windows instance, then yeah, it'll likely run worse than it does now, since it'll have your regular OS PLUS the VM overhead.

That said though, if you wanted to wipe a box clean, I could likely get you an ESX license which is VMWare's bare-metal VM product. Basically, it's a very very lightweight Linux kernel that serves to do nothing more than talk to hardware natively and then launch VMWare server on top of it. Blazingly fast. If it weren't for the 3D acceleration you likely need on that box, you could just run Vista on top of ESX and probably not notice the difference.

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 2.1 (Configuration)

Vinay — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:04:52 -0000

Hi,

I just brought a Dell Inspirion and it came with Vista. I only realised after reading couple of notes on google that installing trial version of netweaver is a problem. I saw in your blog that you first installed on Vista and then on XP. For me, installation failed on several attempts, it asked me to install with -console flag etc and ultimately installed all the components. Then suddenly crashed. Now after clearing everthing like registry setting etc, when I try to install it says SAP already installed when it is not. I am very inclined to install XP on my system, but my laptop is just 1 day old and I want to see if I can install SAP on vista itself.. Can you tell me how you could install it? Any tricks?

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 1 (Installation)

entmike — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:41:39 -0000

I tried it on Vista Ultimate

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 1 (Installation)

ilya — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:15:12 -0000

Hi Mike,

what version of Vista did you try it on? I have Home Premium and I'm not sure if it's good.

Thanks!

Re: Linksys NAS200 Network Storage System

entmike — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:44:22 -0000

I agree. I consider myself to be a forgiving and optimistic person when it comes to software, whether it be open-source or something I paid money for. However, after two years of this sort of behavior from my OS, I made the decision to revert back to what worked. I'm no /. zealot, but in my case it just made better sense. If MS ever addresses these issues, whether it be Windows 7, or what I consider the more responsible alternative, to fix it with their current release, I will gladly return to a later OS.

Re: Linksys NAS200 Network Storage System

Rickster — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:21:13 -0000

I think that is congruent with most of what I've read about the Vista versions. Vista 32-bit, while having good driver support, had poor I/O performance and other quirks which made it undesirable, whereas Vista 64-bit had poor driver support but had none of the performance issues found using Vista 32-bit. I also recall not having problems with just hardware drivers, but also database drivers -- I couldn't connect to localhost MySQL server (32-bit) from localhost IIS (64-bit) due to a lack of 64-bit ODBC drivers. The only alternative at the time was to use some obscure 64-bit version of PHP that wasn't well supported, all in the name of 64-bit ODBC support for MySQL from PHP.

Re: Linksys NAS200 Network Storage System

entmike — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:22:09 -0000

What's interesting is all my hardware was purchased either after or the same time as the Vista release. Simple stuff like an Intel board and processor, some SATA drives, and a GeForce 8800. Nothing legacy or uncommon, so I don't know if drivers had anything to do with my situation or not.

Re: Linksys NAS200 Network Storage System

Rickster — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:31:31 -0000

Vista Premium 64 bit rocked for me until I wanted to add "X" device that required 64-bit drivers. Smaller vendors were/are using Vista as an excuse to not provide driver support --at all or 64-bit versions -- for peripherals that were less than six months old upon Vista's public release. So I now have a $200 hologram (art deco?) coaster, with XP 32 working like a champ on my system. (As expected.)

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 2.1 (Configuration)

entmike — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:51:27 -0000

Yeah, the stuff in this post is more just boring configuration and tweaking. I'll be posting how to get the transport management system up and running soon, as it's broken in the trial. I'll also be posting about how it goes with using their VMWare trial that hosts an ABAP+Java stack, it may be a better playground than a strictly ABAP system, albeit probably not as lean running.

Re: SAP Netweaver 7.01 - Session 2.1 (Configuration)

dpritchett — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:39:09 -0000

Once again I am reminded of the vastness of SAP's product offerings. I've been working on this for 3.5 years and I can barely keep up with your post.

Re: Linksys NAS200 Network Storage System

jgilber1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:54:06 -0000

W3rd.I like mine too.

Re: Linksys NAS200 Network Storage System

entmike — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:16:25 -0000

Mine was a fresh install, 32-bit. I have a friend who swears that it was because I was running 32-bit that I was having these terrible i/o times, and he says 64-bit smokes. I just don't feel like buying another license for 64-bit. Honestly, that's another gripe all in its own.

I think it's more OS mechanisms than it is instruction set, that was causing the problem. It took around half an hour to install SAP on XP 32bit where it took over 4 hours to do the same task on Vista. Something is wrong with that.

Re: Linksys NAS200 Network Storage System

dpritchett — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:03:19 -0000

Are you running on a 64bit system? I have not kept up lately but the initial Vista complaints I read were mostly from people on 32bit systems who just did an in-place upgrade with the same hardware.

Re: Linksys NAS200 Network Storage System

entmike — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:48 -0000

@Daniel J. Pritchett
You might say that I have a little bit of buyer’s remorse when it comes to Vista. The day that it came out I bought Vista Ultimate 32 bit and ran it up until a few weeks ago. For 95% of the things I did, Vista was not a problem, but when I started getting back into more non-casual tasks and gaming, Vista would start dragging. It would take 2 hours to install a game, etc. Pretty much anything that did i/o on the disk would bring the system to a creep. The only thing I am losing by reverting back to XP Pro is DirectX 10, which I’ll just live without.