Re: 4.2 Install Attempt on Virtual PC

[Tom Black <tblack sensci com>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

>On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Tom Black wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to install 4.2 on Virtual PC from Connectix, which emulates
>> a Pentium MMX machine on a Macintosh PowerPC. I have been unsuccessful so
>> far, but I am hoping that someone on this list might have some insight
>> about the problem.
>
>This is an VIRTUAL machine and nobody can garantuee it is really
>compatible without drivers.
>
>Hence your config may not work at all.
>
>But there is Linux for the PPC chip!
>
>Hugo.
>

Hugo, I'm not looking for a guarantee. If 4.2 won't run on Virtual PC,
however, I would like to know what specific problems in the emulation
prevent it. If Connectix is made aware of these problems, perhaps a future
version of Virtual PC could be made to support RedHat Linux. Virtual PC
currently supports Windows 3.1/95/NT, OS/2, and OpenStep. There doesn't
seem to be any fundamental reason why it couldn't support Linux.

I am using MkLinux on my Mac 9500 (120 MHz PPC 604). Unfortunately, MkLinux
will not yet run on my Powerbook 3400 (200 MHz PPC 603e). Since I do use
RedHat Linux on an old Zeos 486, I thought it would be worth a try on
Virtual PC.

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