Thanks, Rick - 
 
My goal is to run Apple's latest Darwin on a PC. To accomplish that, I've read that it's fir
st necessary to have Darwin up & running. 
 
Apple's Darwin 8 ISO fails to install on my test PC, but OpenDarwin 7.2.1 installs and runs 
fine. 
 
So now I'd like to download Apple's latest Darwin sources, build a working version, and upgr
ade to that. 
 
In asking about "support" here, I was simply looking for some tips, pointers, and/or referen
ces to documentation, FAQ, etc., with regard to that upgrade process. 
 
Given the age and discontinued status of OpenDarwin, any detailed help would be greatly appr
eciated. 
 
Thanks again. 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: rick@[...].ca
To: bcsi@[...].com
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:18:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Upgrade paths and continued support

>  Second, are detailed steps available anywhere for upgrading OpenDarwin 7.2.1 to Apple's la
test release of Darwin?

Although it isn't OpenDarwin, you can download Darwin8 from http://developer.apple.com/opens
ource and install that on some generic P4 systems. Not a lot of network cards are supported,
 but I've found that a 3C905 works ok.

The iso install image is under Darwin8.0 binaries. You can then build newer stuff from the n
ewer sources, although I've only done that for the kernel. (btw, the kernels in PPC sources 
build for generic P4 systems)

I haven't tried to build X.

rick

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