dmd 1.052 for Mac OSX 10.6

Daniel de Kok me at nowhere.nospam
Sat Nov 14 08:35:43 PST 2009


On 2009-11-13 14:55:12 +0100, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> said:
> Really? Can't you just partition your hard disk in two for 10.5? I'm 
> not saying you should take the burden of testing with both, but saying 
> you can't install 10.5 alongside 10.6 seems dubious to me:
> 
> 1. Use Disk Utility to resize your current partition and create a new one.
> 2. Boot using your 10.5 installer DVD and install on the new partition.
> 3. Press option at startup to see a boot menu; open the Startup 
> preference pane to set the default boot partition (or use "bless" on 
> the command line).

Why go through the hassle of dual booting? Kernel ABI compatibility is 
usually quite good in OS X, so it should be not problem to unpack the 
Darwin userland somewhere and chroot into it for 10.5 testing...

Take care,
Daniel



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