MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing

[hbarcellos]

Live-CD runs perfectly on my PBook 15" 1.67 (not the high-res one). But when I try to install using manual partition, I'm able to resize OSX partition but I'm a little bit confused about what to do next.
1) I have created a small 1GB HFS Partition + a big 20gb SFS partition. I tried some other options as well, but MorphOS complains about "Not a valid DOS partition" or something.
Where can I find information about what do I need to manually do in order to procceed?

Rgds,

[hbarcellos]

See the Dual-boot MorphOS and MacOS X on a Mac Mini G4 guide. It applies to PowerBook as well.

Thanks. I'll try it at night at home.
About this:

"As mentioned in the Prerequisites section, in case you have an existing OSX installation, you will have to resize its partition to make some room for MorphOS. Since not everybody has retail Leopard DVD, I will use Ubuntu to explain how to do this."

Strangely enough, I was able to resize my OSX partition inside MorphOS! Is that a new feature of 3.0 or a bug?

[hbarcellos]

Ok, I was able to install MorphOS 3.0 in my PB, but, I now can't boot from OSX.
Inside HDConfig, I can see the following:
* DH0: 64MB HFS 5% used
* - 128MB
* DH2: 63.98GB HFS NODOS (this is the OSX partition)
* DH1: 10.36GB SFS 1% used (this is MorphOS partition)
* - 8KB

When holding ALT during boot, only MorphOS HD is shown as bootable.
Someone can help me on that?

[hbarcellos]

Well, the OSX partition is not being mounted on MorphOS neither can be mounted/verified/repaired using Leopard installation DVD...
On MorphOS is not even identified as a Mac HFS or any other known type.
I think it's gone, forever!

Any suggestions?

[hbarcellos]

The OS X partition is a goner now. MorphOS doesn't know how to resize the filesystem.
If you wish to have a dual boot setup you need to start from the scratch by installing OS X, and then continuing with the instructions I posted before.
(While it might be possible to reinstall OS X without zapping MorphOS, I wouldn't count on it, and it might require some extensive tweaking. Using the good know procedure is the easiest route to successful dual installation)

Well, obviously the Powerbook is not my main machine, so, reinstall everything from scratch would'nt be a problem.
But, just as a suggestion, why resize is not disabled at HDConfig? Or, at least a warning explaining which formats MorphOS HDConfig Resize functionality is able to deal with?

Rgds,
Muffie.

[hbarcellos]

Anyone know how many people actually work on MorphOS development?
- I see several complains about it, not only here (lack of Wireless & 3D for PBooks) but also at MorphZone (keymaps, network speed,...)
- I understand the herculean effort of the team in order to put something live,

I think this is a no-future situation. Even if it's a hobby for developers, I think it's time to re-think the "business model" of MorphOS development. Maybe open-source it and invite all the community to write drivers and etc (similar to Linux)...
I don't know the answer, but what I know is that we're close to a situation where
* MOS developers would "quit" and invest their free time on something more fun & profitable
* No more than 10 guys will complain about it

[hbarcellos]

About MorphOS team, I'm not questioning how hard it is to create a driver, I'm questioning the model that those guys are following. In a good way:
- They're doing extreme programing there for almost nothing. I'm almost sure that the license price would be unable to cover 10% of the hours they took to put everything in place.
- We (the community) and some specialized websites like slashdot, are complaining about missing features and some bugs. Mostly due to our anxiety to use a "modern" and "complete" Amiga-like OS.
  ==> Ex: lack of wifi is really bad for a notebook these days. People waited for a long time to get their hands on 3.0, so, they got Angry. But we know we all rushed them for a release, and we all know how hard it should have been to release it.
See, everyone is right.

The community (all together) must think a way to make this -hobby- something barely profitable to the ones working on it, or a way to caught the attention of more developers. We cannot be restricted just to the Amiga community.

I also don't know the answer, but I'm sure there must be a way out there. Otherwise, who knows how long it would take to MorphOS to be abandoned sw?

*PS* Closing the forums at morphzone is really non-sense!

[hbarcellos]

PearPC for OSX? I think no one uses that anymore.
You can install Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion and Mountain Lion natively on most x86 Hardware.
Just Google osx86