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I Need help with MAC OS X (unix prompt to get rc5 started)TACUBE

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oneye

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Hi all,

I'm getting access to a Dual G4-500 thats running MAC os X. I need some help, a walkthrough rather, to get the dnetc service running on it, hopefully in background as a service. I'm not familiar with this OS so need someone to give a pretty detailed description of how to get this running, and how to utilize both cpu's to the maximum. Any help much appreciated.

oneye .-)
 
if i remember correctly macs arent the beset at multi-tasking, so it may be a little sluggish if you are doing some cpu intensive stuff
 
I can't help you with the setup, but as I recall OS X doesn't have the same multi-tasking problems as prior MAC OS's. Perhaps AppleTalking will see this and jump in....
 
Here's a thread with a preconfigured MacBorg disk.

Appletalking also wrote this once:

"You're description of the setup procedure is correct: download the file, unstuff it using StuffIt Expander (which he should have already, if not go here to get it), then fire up the regular dnetc client. All the configuration menus are the same as on the PC, so setting up the client shouldn't be a problem. Put the hidden client in the Startup Items folder inside the System Folder so that it will automatically run in the background. AFAIK, the Mac dnet client automatically senses an Internet connection; I think it's designed to run in a permanent "lurk" mode. Therefore the hidden client should have no trouble fetching/flushing on its own.

I run a bunch of Macs at my school (just look at my herd page in my sig) and I run the hidden client on all of them. I've never had a problem with fetching/flushing or configuring the client. If you need any more help, just ask!

Nick Klingaman
appletalking@home.com "

Hope this helps. 🙂
 
Hold on guys, this is X, not the regular version of MacOS. For X, you need to download the MacOS X client from Dnet, and unstuff it. From there, drag everything from the now unstuffed folder into your user folder(Root\users\<name> ). Once there, go into Root\Applications\Utilities, and launch the terminal application. From there, type cmd-shift-n, and type Dnetc in the new dialog box. Enter all of your info into the config screen, quit the client(ctrl-c), and open the dialog box and type dnetc again. This will start the client. Now feel free to minimize/hide the client.
 
thanks all, most specially virge, this command prompt stuff got me confused, windows lamer i be ... hope to have this up by tommorrow, I hope the client uses both cpu's full speed, this machine just sits there most of the day.

oneye .-)
 
Denni .. why be sorry ... unless you count starting an addiction thats makes me wonder how to plug my own brain into cracking packets when I'm offline (sleeping) .-)

hope to have this addition to your herd soon, as well as the new 733 g4 with dvd-r we just got at work.

on a sidenote though MAC OS X is way coolio, I need to install this at home.
 
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