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- WalkaWalka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually heard MacOSX on Intel PXE boots quite sweetly.. but know for sure Darwin can be as well.. the difficulty of course is in the "loader" when required xcode for compilation.. but since the days when this story was release that has become available.. well its a slam dunk that it will work.
I have notes on doing a native Netinstall from a MacOSX server from Apple a while back but its kinda burried on my hard drive.
The whole world is changing its tune with reguards to Netbooting and LiveCD execution.. which seriously begs the question of how long until Apple and Microsoft begin "burning" their OSes into silicon.. or perhaps more intriguingingly.. they load "quantum bits..or a photon streams" into a light gate on a CPU.. and it just circulates forever like literal "life blood" on a chip.. just waiting for its execution on the processor space.. worlds like Tron emerge in my mind.. and would this blood just "bleed out" as in per execution session everytime you start the PC you burn up one copy of the OS? or does it get conserved and recycled?
Or more Machivalian.. doesn't its stay in constant "quantum communications" with the evil empire at Microsoft.. not unlike that tenuous link ORAC maintained with every computer in the Federation in the old 70's TV show "Blakes Seven".. all conpsiracy theories aside however.. we do live in interesting times.. and space. - p014k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So where would you get the image for MacOSX?
- WalkaWalka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A major note I didn't see anyone else comment on is this Beta player also supports PXE Booting an image, which means it supports WinPE, BartPE, MacOSX, FreeBSD, SolarisX86, as well as Windows and Linux network distributions and installs.. not to mention QNX.. and .. and.. well you get the idea.
Kinda like to also point out that Virtual PC 2004 sorta supported a PXE Boot using a virtual floppy PXE image or MBA on a flippy (floppy disk image).. but that the DEC virtual interface would lockup once the Windows OS's passed into phase II gui boot mode.. never saw a solution.. but it seems to be a common problem with usually high quality ethernet drivers.. no ding to Microsoft.. but it points out this is not an easy task.
On a weirdo related topic.. people might also take note of the EFW technology Microsoft introduced in Embedded XP.. this looks to be very similar to the -cloop driver technology and the newer -cowloop technology Knoppix is famous for.. booting and running Windows XP kernels on just a bunch of Nand gates without initiating pregnant chaffe may be a step closer to reality.. "pun intended".
Now just imagine where that leads.. Booting MacOSX - x86 on a video iPod !?!
vmware.. you are Amazing! - insane.k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nout like free stuff! yay
- JoeSmooth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for the info! This is awesome!
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