iPC X-DL 10.5.6 Release

Nice work! I'll have to pick up some DL-DVD's for this.

Pcwiz, does it include any changes from your beta release except new drivers etc. ? Cause your beta with ppf2 is running very well with everything from hardware supported etc, on my machine. so i dont know if there`s a need for me to change.

@TaistoPcwiz, does it include any changes from your beta release except new drivers etc. ? Cause your beta with ppf2 is running very well with everything from hardware supported etc, on my machine. so i dont know if there`s a need for me to change.

The installer side only has Leopard Server Package added on, otherwise it's exactly the same as iPC v1.1.

hmmm live dvd
just like I was doing with leo4all
wonder how he got the idea hehehe

anywho great release

Very nice, well done on the release. Shame that my Laptop kext (X1270) just is being a royal pain.

LiveDVD part is great too, thanks for all the work!

idea why not enable a feature to to install off the live disk and possibly run a program to find the proper drivers or somthing just throwing that out their..

thanks awesome release

I agree, but that will take a lot of programming, I believe everybody is waiting for the new Chameleon to see what that can do!?

how much different is it from the single layer version

First let me say thanks for making a really solid distro. Would it be possible to make a ppf patch for the the DL using the single layer as a source? I'd love to try it out and having a live dvd for rescue purposes would be great, but my internet connection is really slow.

I pay close to $70 a month and never get speeds higher than 150K/sec. My ISP are total bit torrent fascists. According to them "it totally trashes their network" :

They take traffic shaping to a whole new level. At one point they actually capped my bandwidth at 1/2 what I was paying for! It always seemed slow. Especially since my last house had 12mbps cable :

I have all my bills on auto pay so it took me like 4 months to realize what they were doing. They never tried to contact me about it. I never got a refund and no justification for what they'd done, besides "It really messes up our network." what a load of BS ...

:-| Worst part is I can't get cable internet, dsl,or even 3G broadband where I live so I'm stuck with this crappy WISP or (shudder) i go back to dial up… I can't wait to move.

But I digress. Would patching the single layer DVD be possible in an effective way? . Cutting the size of the download for the live dual layer would be really great?

So far iPC is my favorite distro(Y). It's very thorough and well organized It had nearly everything to get my Inspiron 1525 up and running and what it didn't have was trivial to install.

Thanks Again

Thank you very much for this full packed DVD. But, unfortunately, I can not find drivers for my HD4850... and have to sit with inactive hardware acceleration. Can anyone help with this?

There will be no PPF patches for the DL distro and we wont be releasing the DL version of the Install DVD on it's own.

Great release - thank you for that

I'll try to use it, because all others are not functional into my computer (kalyway, IAtkos).
It is very hard to get it everywhere!.

Ipc

I bought a Verbatim DVD+R DL today and when i click burn disc in any burning program, it gives me an error. Some say write protected etc.

Umm, a write-protected blank dvd seems a little strange. Maybe the disc is broken or something ? U sure that your rewriter can burn DL discs ?

Ihave LG GSA 4160B dvd writer. it can write DL dvd-s.
Nero 8 gives me this error that illegal disk, cannot start disc at once…

The Dual-Layer image works best on an 8 GB USB Stick - an installation is finished in less than 10 minutes. But there are a lot of things to fix. I found the most things, but I still search a solution for the System Profiler problem.

A LiveDVD and installer in one ISO? Now that's gotta be the best thing since sliced bread or Leopard distros.
Thanks, pcwiz.

Dvd +r

@Re1m0I bought a Verbatim DVD+R DL today and when i click burn disc in any burning program, it gives me an error. Some say write protected etc.

At the begin ,the instruction ask a " DVD -R" instead a "DVD +R" .

Could be this the trick? I got an error with the Leopard burner on GSA-h55N with a DVD +R too.

Newbrocca

Yes it could be the trick. Get DVD-R and try it.

Install on a IDE

I only got the DVD -R today,and will try later.

Another question...can I install it on IDE hard drive or this version only on SATA?

Newbrocca

Should work on IDE aswell. It`s all case of kexts, but i think it`s SATA which sometimes doesnt work - think IDE mainly works.

Ide

@TaistoShould work on IDE aswell. It`s all case of kexts, but i think it`s SATA which sometimes doesnt work - think IDE mainly works.

Thanks again Taisto…I can't find a dvd -r here in Brasil on my city…'ll try to put on pendrive, I have ipc 10.5.6 running from it…and didn't want to format to put the "LIVE"…but..

newbrocca

boot but ,want to install...

@TaistoYes it could be the trick. Get DVD-R and try it.

I burned it on a DVD +R , it booted, at boot, F8, "config=live.plist" ,and it begins to run with the grey Apple, and then leopard screen, choosed the english language, but now it is asking where to install...
But I want to run it from DVD not install...what did I miss...
sorry my English

Newbrocca

today I downloaded iPC X-DL 10.5.6 and burned it to a DL DVD+R. When I tried booting it all went well till i got to the part where you enter bootlive;exit. After pressing enter when it asked me for the RAMdisk size it errors out on line 85 of /etc/rc.liveboot saying there's an unbound variable and that it can't find the disk. Here's what it looks like (sorry its too big to post).

Anyone have any clues what's going wrong here?

Which driver do I select if I'm using a Gigabyte X800XL (Radeon)

Unbound variable

Hi, I also faced “unbound variable” problem and here is Galileo’s solution in more detail:

Steps needed:
1) create ramdisk
2) copy rc.liveboot to ramdisk
3) edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk
4) run rc.liveboot from ramdisk
5) exit

More details:

1) to create ramdisk, use lines from rc.liveboot. You view this file using command cat, i.e. writing “cat /etc/rc.liveboot | more”. Using down arrow key scroll nearly to the end of the file where you will see “RAMDisk”. Now press “q”. The text will remain on the screen but you will be able to write commands. Here are commands you have to execute (one by one). Please note I changed:

- system-image=no in “hdik” line
- ram://51200 in “hdik” line
- $mntpt to /Volumes in “mount” line

Commands to execute:

dev=`hdik -drivekey system-image=no -drivekey eject-upon-logout=no -nomount ram://51200`
newfs $dev #hack to init partition table automatically
newfs_hfs $dev
mount -t hfs -o nosuid,nodev $dev /Volumes

2) If previous step finished without errors you have working ramdisk in /Volumes. Now copy rc.liveboot to it:
cp /etc/rc.liveboot /Volumes

3) To edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk type:
emacs /Volumes/rc.liveboot
Now scroll the file till line 85 and comment this lines (put # before them):
set ${volinfo}
devname=$1
fstype=$2
To save yor changes pres Ctrl+X and then Ctrl+C. Editor will ask you of saving changes, press “y”.

4) To run rc.liveboot from ramdisk:
sh /Volumes/rc.liveboot init 2000000
If everything works fine you should see two lines of text, first saying something like “messed with swap”

5) enter command “exit” and watch as your live Leopard is starting

Hope this helped.

Thank to creators of this great live distro!

Ok i'm not even getting as far as most of you guys and would appreciate some help. I'm following the instructions:
To boot the LiveDVD, boot from the iPC Disc, except this time press F8 while booting the disc to get to the Boot Menu.
Type in:

config=live.plist

And press Enter to start the LiveDVD Boot. Eventually you will get to the root prompt like this:

root#:

I DON'T GET THAT FAR… after I type config=live.plist it starts to run some commands and then freezes... the last few lines are:
MAC framework successfully initialized
using 15728 buffer headers and 4096 clusters IO buffer headers
[TSC] delta:20, skipping synchronization. (CPU1)
IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23
ACPI: System state [S8 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
Class "appleACPIPS2Nub" is duplicate
Duplicate class

Any idea what's going wrong and has anyone else had this problem?
I don't know if this makes a difference but i have used a dual layer dvd+r RW

rc.liveboot

@peetHi, I also faced “unbound variable” problem and here is Galileo’s solution in more detail: Steps needed: 1) create ramdisk 2) copy rc.liveboot to ramdisk 3) edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk 4) run rc.liveboot from ramdisk 5) exit More details: 1) to create ramdisk, use lines from rc.liveboot. You view this file using command cat, i.e.…

I booted the live DVD. Then typed config=live.plist. At root#:, typed cat /etc/rc.liveboot | more.

Then after pressing q, typed the following as said by you:
dev=`hdik -drivekey system-image=no -drivekey eject-upon-logout=no -nomount ram://51200`
newfs $dev #hack to init partition table automatically
newfs_hfs $dev
mount -t hfs -o nosuid,nodev $dev /Volumes

And then typed cp /etc/rc.liveboot /Volumes
It displayed cp: Volumes/rv.liveboot ; read only

Then I typed emacs /Volumes/rc.liveboot
A console opened. NO lines was present in it.
At the bottom, it displayed no such directory. Write Protected.(I don't exactly remember what it said)

What can I do to correct this prblm

Gokul

The exact error shown in the console is "File not found and directory write-protected"

Is it possible to mount a USB stick drive

@peetHi, I also faced “unbound variable” problem and here is Galileo’s solution in more detail: Steps needed: 1) create ramdisk 2) copy rc.liveboot to ramdisk 3) edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk 4) run rc.liveboot from ramdisk 5) exit More details: 1) to create ramdisk, use lines from rc.liveboot. You view this file using command cat, i.e.…

Hi this works great thanks for posting! Is this caused because I dont have a HFS partition?
Anyway just a couple of notes that may help others:
emacs crashed on my machine so I used nano succesfully.
I only have 2GB of RAM, need 1.1GB to run so that only leaves 0.9GB for RAM drive space.
'rc.liveboot init 2000000' caused a kernel panic so I tried 'rc.liveboot init 512000' and it worked fine.

And also a question: I have copied the modified rc.liveboot to a USB stick, and I want to know if I can mount the USB stick to save making a RAM drive everytime I want to run it?

Update: Yes I made an HFS partition and this line 85 error disappears. Simple.
Another thing I noticed is the DVD would not boot with my USB printer plugged in (took me ages to figure that out) so if you have problems unplug unsued USB peripherals.

@WhyvernSorry but i cant find where to download it, im quite new in the forum thanks

Then welcome to the InfiniteMac Community.

One recommanded thing to do when beeing new, is reading the Rules (osx 86.net/misc.php?do=cfrules).

This site does not deal with warez - use Google ↗ if you are looking for DL.

This forum is just the place if you are looking for further support for the OSx86 installation & adjustment - although it is not always that easy to get adequate support for releases like this, if the one who pieced it together doesn't do himself...