Help please! I have never used Open Source before! Help! :-)

[Macintosh4life]

Hello,

I am a Complete Mac lover and, honestly, Mac Specialist. I decided, today, to try out "PearPC" with my MacOS 10.3. The computer I'm running this on is a custom PC... Specs are listed below.

AMD Athalon XP 2800+ Overclocked to roughly 2.5Ghz and a CPU Bus of 400
1 Gig PC400 Corsair DDR
1 Maxtor 120GB 7200 RPM UATA Hard Drive
Asus Socket 278 if i remember correctly, with nVidia nForce 2 chipset
nVidia G-Force 5700OC with 128MB SDRAM on the card
Panasonic 52X32X52 CD/RW drive
Sony 3 1/2 Floppy
AC97 Onboard Sound (damn onboard)
And, of course, Windows XP w/ SP1

I am having several problems. Such as a constant error reading

"SPTI Device Iocontrol <> returned error:
Command 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0
The requiest could not be performed because of an I/O Error...."

Also, my CD Tray opens periodically when I'm in MacOS X.

Sometimes, my CD ROM will cause PearPC to crash to windows and then cause the CD tray not to want to open again until PearPC is re-opened.

I have no sound (am using PearPC v. .04) and I hear there are as of yet no sound drivers or sound support.

Also, I run off of an Intel 56k Modem (cause I live in a damn budget suites), and I cannot get the computer to read the modem in MacOS X.

Those are the only problems I'm having. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I am so very new to this "Open Source" stuff and I don't understand a thing about it. nor am I a programmer.... But, I'd love for this to work like a Real Mac, or at least as close to it as it can until I can save the 3 grand for a real one.

Also, I happen to own 2 Macs, A PPC 7000/100 with OS 7.5 and a 7200/120 with OS 9.1... I'd like to install OS9.1 on here cause I have a few "legacy" games 'd like to try. If there is anyone out here who can help this man out, please do! I'm lost with this PearPC...

Also, one huge question.... Can I access the PearPC HD partition in Windows so I can add some music to iTunes cause, when sound support does arive, I'd love to jam to my musicwithout ever having to return to windows. I hate Microsoft. Thats the whole reason I got PearPC. Hell, my windows is set to a MacOS X theme complete with Apple bar and everything! Thanks everyone!

[Yukon Kid]

Well I would suggest that you think about linux if you are not happy with windows, you can run pearpc in linux too.
OS9 would probably be better served from Sheepshaver.
modem support etc is something that you can find in the networking area.
I don't sound like much help but everything you mentioned is covered somewhere in the forum.
as far as owning a mac you could get yourself a mini. and it will come with 10.4 soon and not cost 3 grand.

[Macintosh4life]

Thats kind of interesting. Although, I love the G-5 Cases, (honestly, I like the G-4 cases more) but their just so damn expensive....

You said everything in this post is covered somewhere? Even the opening CD tray? I'll keep lookin. But, my biggest problem is, I've never worked with Open Source before so I have no clue about it at all! Thats, think, what is making this so confusing.

Thanks though

[Yukon Kid]

well maybe not the cd tray as you put it, but certianly bugs get talked about.
working with open source is not something that you need to worry about unless you want to sell or write code for this progect.
Using has very little to do with it being open source.
Are you downloading the premade code or are you compiling your own?
That would make it a bit confusing.
What computer are you running macos 10.3 on?

[Cat_7]

"SPTI Device Iocontrol <> returned error:
Command 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0
The requiest could not be performed because of an I/O Error...."

>This error happens when you use " nativecdrom" as cd type in your config file

Also, my CD Tray opens periodically when I'm in MacOS X.

>This is a bug in the pearpc code. It should go away if you start using cdrom-images

Sometimes, my CD ROM will cause PearPC to crash to windows and then cause the CD tray not to want to open again until PearPC is re-opened.

>Same bug

I have no sound (am using PearPC v. .04) and I hear there are as of yet no sound drivers or sound support.

>There is no reliable sound emulation in pearpc yet

Also, I run off of an Intel 56k Modem (cause I live in a damn budget suites), and I cannot get the computer to read the modem in MacOS X.

>Pearpc does not use your modem just like that. You have to install OpenVPN to get networking going from pearpc to windows, and then configure a proxyserver to make the connection to the internet.

Those are the only problems I'm having. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I am so very new to this "Open Source" stuff and I don't understand a thing about it. nor am I a programmer.... But, I'd love for this to work like a Real Mac, or at least as close to it as it can until I can save the 3 grand for a real one.

>Open source software doesn't have to be different from other software,


Also, I happen to own 2 Macs, A PPC 7000/100 with OS 7.5 and a 7200/120 with OS 9.1... I'd like to install OS9.1 on here cause I have a few "legacy" games 'd like to try. If there is anyone out here who can help this man out, please do! I'm lost with this PearPC...

> You should try SheepShaver for windows (supports up to 9.0.4) for this, as Pearpc does not yet support OS9

Also, one huge question.... Can I access the PearPC HD partition in Windows so I can add some music to iTunes cause, when sound support does arive, I'd love to jam to my musicwithout ever having to return to windows. I hate Microsoft. Thats the whole reason I got PearPC. Hell, my windows is set to a MacOS X theme complete with Apple bar and everything! Thanks everyone!

>You can create a second hard disk for pearpc. This hard disk you can also open in windows with HFV explorer or Macdrive or maybe even Daemon tools. But not when pearpc is running!

Cat_7

[Macintosh4life]

There is no reliable sound emulation in pearpc yet

Does anyone know when there MIGHT be sound emulation for this project? If not, I'd like to learn Open Source just to try to make one for you guys and myself.

Pearpc does not use your modem just like that. You have to install OpenVPN to get networking going from pearpc to windows, and then configure a proxyserver to make the connection to the internet.

I am using a Proxy at work via DSL and am installing Mac OS X here too, how do I set that up to allow my DSL to route through it? (I am a Network Systems Administrator so I might understand how to do this with some help)

You can create a second hard disk for pearpc. This hard disk you can also open in windows with HFV explorer or Macdrive or maybe even Daemon tools. But not when pearpc is running!

Can you teach me how I can create this second PearPC partition?

This is a bug in the pearpc code. It should go away if you start using cdrom-images

Its a bug huh? So, the best way to get around this bug is to go through CD Images? Just rip an image of the CD I'd like to use and mount it in place of the default CD drive in the boot.txt? Will this make it stop crashing?

[Macintosh4life]

What computer are you running macos 10.3 on?

Custom PC with...

AMD Athalon XP 2800+ Overclocked to roughly 2.5Ghz and a CPU Bus of 400
1 Gig PC400 Corsair DDR
1 Maxtor 120GB 7200 RPM UATA Hard Drive
Asus Socket 278 if i remember correctly, with nVidia nForce 2 chipset
nVidia G-Force 5700OC with 128MB SDRAM on the card
Panasonic 52X32X52 CD/RW drive
Sony 3 1/2 Floppy
AC97 Onboard Sound (damn onboard)
And, of course, Windows XP w/ SP1

(this is the one I have at home)

My work PC...

AMD Athalon Xp 2600 Overclocked to 2.1 Ghz
1 Gig PC 400 DDR RAM
2 60 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM UATA HD's
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard with 333mhz FSB
Onboard AC97 Sound
nVidia G-Force 5700 Overclocked (128MB SDRAM)
Windows 2003 Enterprize Server and Active Directory Domain Controller

[Cat_7]

http://pearpc.net/links.php for hard disk image creators. (also for windows)
If you need help configuring your boot.txt post it here and we'll see.

download cc-proxy here:
http://www.youngzsoft.net/ccproxy/proxy ... wnload.htm

look here for how to configure networking with it:
http://www.prasys.net.tc/ (click How-to's and look for configuring network with cc-proxy)

Cat_7

[Macintosh4life]

Thanks for all the help you guys. I just hope they can make PearPC even better. I really hope they add sound support cause music is a must for me. being in a band, its my life! Thanks again.

[PPC_Digger]

Also, one huge question.... Can I access the PearPC HD partition in Windows so I can add some music to iTunes cause, when sound support does arive, I'd love to jam to my musicwithout ever having to return to windows. I hate Microsoft. Thats the whole reason I got PearPC. Hell, my windows is set to a MacOS X theme complete with Apple bar and everything! Thanks everyone!

Another way to do it is sharing your mac hard drive when you enable networking (I hope the guide Cat_7 directed you to will work) and mounting it as a network drive in windows (or vice versa).