Mac OS X realted

asi0917 · 06-01-2005, 09:18 PM

so im trying to figure out how im going to instal OS X on a dual boot with WinXP and Mandrake Linux
my friend who did it told me that the only hard part was getting the drivers fo all of the devices and his solution was to write his own using perl. I don't know perl but i think if I find device drivers that are unix based, they will work on OS X
essentially i have 2 questions, only one of which is for this forum
1. Where can i find device drivers for the hardware i used to build my computer that will work with OS X (if such drivers exist)?
2. How do I instal them onto my OS X partition?
3. (bonus) what filesystem should my OS X partition be?

jdiemer · 06-02-2005, 02:00 PM

You can't have OSX and WinXP on the same machine. OSX runs on PowerPC processors, WinXP on x86 processors. Linux runs on both types of processors (and many more).

Edit: Well, technically you can run OSX on x86 using PearPC as a PowerPC emulator, but its still in really early stages and extremely slow.

asi0917 · 06-02-2005, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jdiemer
You can't have OSX and WinXP on the same machine. OSX runs on PowerPC processors, WinXP on x86 processors. Linux runs on both types of processors (and many more).

Edit: Well, technically you can run OSX on x86 using PearPC as a PowerPC emulator, but its still in really early stages and extremely slow.

that sucks, thanks for the info