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Mac Help

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Diffusion

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I often see questions regarding how to set up the mac client, being a mac sysadmin I wonder if it would be worth my time to write up a guide to installing on the mac. Any interest?
 
/me raises his hand I have a few macs available when I go back on christmas break that could use some assimilating....and though i've done it before, a nice little guide wouldn't hurt.
 
Yes that would be nice. When I was looking for info on installing the mac client, the only source I could find any info was on Paulsons tutorial, but that info wasn't enough. Naturally, asking questions here and reading others threads helped answering all my questions, but a tutorial could be helpful and reassuring. If anybody ever has installed the client on a pc there really isn't much more to add. All I did was to dl the proper client, which unstuffed itself automatically (I already had the unstuffit program) and then I configured the client in the same way as in the pc version.
 
Ok, here it goes, could someone post this on the TA site?
To install on the macintosh you need two things, a manner of getting the client and the latest version of Stuffit. To obtain stuffit go to www.download.com and search for Stuffit under their mac selection. Now, head for www.distributed.net, and go to their mac clients page. If the mac you are installing on is labled "PowerPC" "PowerMac" "G3" or "G4" download the PowerPc client, otherwise download the 68k client. Now that you have those, if you have not downloaded the files straight to your Macintosh, Macs will read PC floppys, so just copy them over to a standard windows/dos formatted disk. The mac should read the disks fine (Unless you have the PC Compatibility extension disabled). Now, unstuff the mac client to the hard drive. Open it up and run dnetc, after properly configuring it, make sure to benchmark it! I've found that I get horrid key rates until I do, it seems to use the most compatible core by default. Now, quit out and make an alias of "dnetc faceless", drag this icon into hard drive:system folder:startup items, open up the start up items folder and delete the alias part of the name. Now everything is complete. The output and input buffers are compatible with PCs, so you can floppynet over to them by copying buffers back and forth.
Ok, does that help?
 
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