Thanks for the help guys. I think the problem is that VirtualBox does not support 64 bit guests on the Mac yet. Let's hope they sort it out soon?
I have installed a trial copy of VMWare fusion and have managed to get J64 working on ubuntu. Hooray! :-). Issues I ran into, in case anyone else tries it this way: 1) The macBook Pro keyboard is not properly recognised, so I did the things advised on this page http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959249 . I installed xkbset: sudo apt-get install xkbset and appended the following to .bashrc: xmodmap -e "keycode 94 = grave asciitilde" xmodmap -e "keycode 133 = ISO_Level3_Shift" xmodmap -e "keycode 134 = Multi_key" xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Pointer_Button3" xkbset m 2) java64 had to be created: sudo ln /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/java64 64-bit jconsole and jwd work for me now start for me now. If I don't run into any problems then I will buy a copy of VMWare fusion when the trial runs out. It is pretty slick and only costs ~￡50. Cheers, Matthew. 2008/11/15 bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Matthew Brand wrote: >> I have managed to get Damn Small Linux (DSL) working, but it complains >> that the Jconsole binary cannot be executed. I tried to install Java >> on it, but gave up after an hour. Then I installed Arch Linux 64, but >> could not get it to connect to the internet. Ubuntu complains that the >> kernel is for x86 rather than i686 so that does not work, I cannot >> find an Ubuntu which has got the i686 kernel. > > virtualbox only started to support 64-bit guest recently. My > experience is that it works but not very well. DSL uses a rather > outdated kernel 2.24 iirc. Arch Linux is meant for hackers, its > installation stops after setting up enough to allow to you login a tty > console. You have to manually set up various conf files yourself. I > guess that ubuntu said it needs a "x86_64" which means a 64-bit cpu > rather than "i686" (32-bit). So did you actually install a 64-bit > version of virtualbox on a 64-bit os running on a 64-bit cpu? > >> What is involved in making a 64 bit J64 bit binary for the Mac anyway? >> Is it possible to just put the source code onto a 64 bit mac and press >> compile/build to make a dmg file and upload it to the download page >> for J? > > Might be Eric did not get a macbook with 64-bit os to play with, or > you might contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] as mentioned in the download > page. > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩105 杜甫 月夜 > 今夜鄜州月 閨中只獨看 遙憐小兒女 未解憶長安 > 香霧雲鬟濕 清輝玉臂寒 何時倚虛幌 雙照淚痕乾 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >
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