[tech] beige, poobrown and stuff

[proXy]

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 16:20, James Andrewartha wrote:

    I've got poobrown working again, by making piggery a slave nis server on
    the clubroom network. However, it's rather lacking in shells, and has no
    compiler, so is rather useless atm. I've also resurrected beige, and it
    seems to be fairly happy atm.

Beige is also a NeXtstep, correct?
And when you say lacking in shells? You mean it has no ability to open a
console (due to no devices available) or no program to put on that
console (such a bash)?

    The freshers have been playing with netbooting the iMac, and got it
    working eventually. Mac OS 9.1 was reinstalled so it could boot off the
    hard drive again. Netbooting Mac OS X was a failure, so they ripped out
    its hard drive and stuck it in nautilus and installed from there. The hard
    drive is now back in the iMac (which has been christened tangerine) and
    they are configuring Mac OS X as I type.

And what a failure!! Though it did allow us to learn quite a bit about
some of the evilness in Mac OF, and XHFS (Noone say that it's all good).
It's a pity I missed the Christening, but oh well, I will see it
tomorrow I imagine, in all it's OSX glory.
The question we must now ask ourselves.. is why the heck we didn't
install it like that to start with.

coxy, Benerd, Banana and proXy for wheel in 2002 ;) (waits for
flames...)

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