Mac OS Rhapsody DR1, DR2 Intel (x86) & PPC

I tried installing Rhapsody DR2 for x86 in a Windows emulator called VirtualBox, but it didn't work. In the middle of booting Rhapsody from the hard disk for the final installation, it came up with a Mach Operating System window, and at the bottom of that window, it said, "panic: kdp_poll: no debugger device." Does anyone have any ideas as to how to counteract that?

Which one is the PPC version???

24bit: This won't install on an emulator. You need a compatible Mac (see the PPC link to rhapsodyos.org under Compatibility)

You only boot into Mac OS to prepare the destination partition and OF boot. The actual setup is all done from the hidden Rhapsody session.

PowerPup: Fixing the desktop database error in Sheepshaver should work fine. That's how I fixed my copy. The hunt goes on for a good copy of this, but finding someone with an original CD to rip is mission impossible

I remember I had fun installing this OS,}
only thing is that it was only in greys

Unfortunately the DR2 PPC image has been modified, and is therefore useless (as it will show "cannot rebuild desktop file, disk is locked" when booted and will reboot after that)

never mind. Found it. I'll mirror it once i get it downloaded

Thanks. Now, does anyone here have Yellow Box for Windows?

Additional Info,

as I was cleaning my Garage today,
I found this very old Acer PC with an unknown CYRIX x386 66mhz Processor and 24Mb RAM
so out of curiosity, I thought about installing Rhapsody on that PC,
and guess what... it worked!

and it works great, still pretty fast, what a great OS.

(just wanted to share that)

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As I mentioned before,
I made a UNIX-ISO image (in Windows XP environment) and put the Applications I downloaded
from your WebSite, then I burned it onto a CD, and it worked!

that's all.

a) I don't know anything about Windows, haven't touched Microsoft stuff in more than 8 years. But why not use an FTP client to connect to Rhapsody? It was what Apple recommended to developers. Otherwise I burned most of my Rhapsody apps to CDs back 11 years ago, and they have always worked for me.

b) I've never tried. It is a drag-n-drop environment, so navigate to the files you need in the WorkSpace Manager and move them to a folder in your home directory. Install them from there. And even the terminal is drag-n-drop, so type in "installer.sh " and then drag the package onto the terminal window (which will produce the exact address of the package) and hit return.

c) Looks like you figured that out... but I have a set of FAQs and put together a package of technical articles on Rhapsody called RhapsodyAnswers that are designed to offer help to those new to Rhapsody.

d) Once logged in under default mode, the driver settings are set in Configure.app.

Euryale: "Now would you please tell me, what should I write from here, to install
the OmniFrameworks and other apps from the CD?"

Navigate with the WorkSpace Manager to the correct folder on the CD. If you can't get there by simple navigation, then getting there any other way will be even harder. Start by double clicking the CD icon on the desktop. If there isn't a CD icon on the desktop, then that may be the heart of your problems (as your system may not be recognizing the CD drive).

This isn't really the best place for this type of stuff... there is a Rhapsody section of the forums at nextcomputers.org, that would be a better place for a back-n-forth dialog.

Maybe I should have been clearer... www.rhapsodyos.org is my web site.

And if you don't like the command line installer, there is an installer application (TinyInstaller) for DR2 that will work. But for OmniWeb to work at all, you have to install the OmniFrameworks first.

I'm not much of a database person, so it wasn't high on my list of apps to collect to make Rhapsody useful for me as a daily OS. I guess if I really needed something I have FileMaker Pro installed in Blue Box on my system, but I rarely turn to Blue Box for anything.

Firstly, Rhapsody isn't considered abandonware by Apple. This wasn't provided to the public, was never intended for the public, and was never abandon after having been supported for the public.

With that having been said, I'll offer limited information on this topic.

Euryale: "it's weird that its System documentation comes in HTML formated files and PDF's
but it doesn't include any browser or PDF readers."

Rhapsody came with both OmniWeb and OmniPDF on the installation media for reading HTML and PDF files. Additionally, TextEdit can display simple HTML files like the ones included within the documentation. The version of OmniWeb included is an expiring Beta, but the final version of OmniWeb 3.0 was made to be compatible with the Intel version of Rhapsody (and is still available somewhere on the Omni Group's web site).

Euryale: "I just wish there was an Office-like App, that would make it really useful."

What are you looking for in the way of applications?

I use TextEdit in Mac OS X for my basic word processing. If I need more than what it provides I'm moving up to doing page layout and I do that in Stone Design's Create. In Rhapsody I also use TextEdit for my basic word processing. If I need more than what it provides I'm moving up to doing page layout and I do that in Stone Design's Create for Rhapsody.

Create does page layout, web page/site building and vector based illustration work. It is really a sort of 'swiss army knife' application, and Stone Design still sells license codes for Create 5.x which works nicely in Rhapsody on Intel based systems. The complete Create 5 manual is on my web site (which was made using Create in Rhapsody).

If you need a spreadsheet application, Mesa3 works nicely for that. If you want to view PDFs, there is OmniPDF, but PDFView is a much better application (and includes far more features).

There is a dedicated word processor application called WriteUp and a dedicated page layout application called PasteUp for Rhapsody, but the developer is unwilling to sell license codes for them any more (though the apps still work in demo mode).

I'm glad to know it was of some use to you. I think that the discs and floppies have to be UFS-formatted (Unix File System). I think you can do this in Linux and Disk Utility in Mac OS X.

BTW, the only available web browser for Rhapsody, OmniWeb, requires a date before 1996. Otherwise it won't load.

I hope that you manage to get it working fully

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This site has some useful info on setting up with Rhapsody: http://www.rhapsodyos.org/home.html

There are 3 files, one is the ISO's OS,
but there are 2 with the suffix ".fs"
which are "InstallationDisk.fs" and "DeviceDriversDisk.fs"
they seemed to be the installation floppy images,

my question is,
How do you handle the .fs files?

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Nevermind, I just discovered RawWrite

Well, like everything else on this website it's abandonware. Like nk6 said, it could be in black and white, but the colour drivers may work. You would also have to know all the specific hardware because the installer asks you everything, down to what CD-ROM driver to use (DVD drives aren't supported.)

I haven't installed it on real hardware, just virtual machines. If you have any success with it please let me know.

If you want to try this you'll need an old Pentium I or bochs, it doesn't work on any other pc emulator, and even this way it runs awfully slow and in black and white.