On Sunday, Jan 19, 2003, at 11:10 US/Central, James Elliott wrote: > I've a DayStar MP 528 in the mail to me at the moment, so I have been > looking at my options OS-wise. Since I plan to use it as a server, > I'm not aware of a way to let the Mac OS take advantage of its power.
I would highly suggest you take a look at Linux, as it would fully support all 4 processors. I personally recommend Debian Linux (http://www.debian.org) as it comes with an SMP kernel. Once you install the system simply type "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc-smp" at the command line as root and an SMP enabled kernel will be installed. I'm running a 9600 200MP (dual 604e's) this way and it works great as a web server. My website, www.drbobguy.com, is hosted on it. > For this reason I thought I'd use Be, since it was originally made > for a multiprocessor 604. BUT, when I checked Be's site via the web > archive, it said that they did not have the specs for DayStar > machines, and so could not guarantee that it would work. Has anyone > tried this? I haven't tried it specifically, but I would suspect it would work with some tweaking. The only place I'm aware of that you can still get BeOS for the powerpc is Purplus software (www.purplus.com), where BeOS 4.0 is currently $8. Best of luck, Robert R. MacGregor ************************************************************************ ******* Robert R. MacGregor Houston, TX, USA "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave." --Ernest Hemingway -- Old Mac MP is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Old Mac MP list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/oldmacmp.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/oldmacmp%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
