Hi, I was an amiga user many years ago and am keen to give morphos a go. I know I should just get a standatd g4 mac or a mini that will definatly work but I like making life difficult for myself. I can get a dual g4 xserve for a reasonable price and am wondering if morphos will run on it? Has anyone tried it on an xserve? I did some searches but didnt find anything.

Cheers
Dave

If the machine is from a friend, you can always try to install it on an empty hardrive ? Otherwise I wouldn't take the gamble unless some developer inhere says he tried it.

> I can get a dual g4 xserve for a reasonable price and am wondering
> if morphos will run on it?

Most probably not. Simple rule to go by is: If it's not listed on http://www.morphos-team.net/hardware.html it doesn't run MorphOS.

> If the machine is from a friend, you can always try to install it on an empty hardrive ?

In this case simply trying to run the MorphOS CD would suffice. No need to install anything to check for compatibility.

> Otherwise I wouldn't take the gamble unless some developer inhere says he tried it.

Such person would surely add whether his try was successful or unsuccessful, so the prospect of being in for a gamble would certainly be somewhat diminished ;-)

Hmm it might work.. never know. If not it would probably easy to get it to work but those devloper resources must go towards less obscure hw :)

BTW I had installed Xserver software running through MOL on peg2 !!

[Quote]Hi, I was an amiga user many years ago and am keen to give morphos a go. I know I should just get a standatd g4 mac or a mini that will definatly work but I like making life difficult for myself. I can get a dual g4 xserve for a reasonable price and am wondering if morphos will run on it? Has anyone tried it on an xserve? I did some searches but didnt find anything.

Cheers
Dave[/quote]

What is the model and manufacture date of this dual G4 Mac? I wonder what differences it has from the dual G4 PowerMac's? If it uses much of the same parts as one of the supported dual G4 PowerMac's, then there is a fair chance that it might work, or could easily be added to the list of supported Mac models with a little tweaking of the MorphOS install CD by one of the Team's developers.

P.S. I am finally back after working for 4-1/2 weeks on the big island of Hawaii, supervising the completion of a 2.5+ million dollar house that has been under construction for over 4 years. The owners have fired the original contractor and several sub-contractors and a couple of sub-contractors have quit, after taking most of the money they were owed for a complete project. It was not a vacation in any way and I am glad to be home, although as part of my pay, I will be returning to use the house and property with several friends later, after the furnishings are purchased and installed and the final landscaping and swimming pool/spa are completed. It is across the road from the Ocean about 21 miles North of Hilo, Hawaii on 18 acres of land with many fruit trees (mostly Lychee).

[ Edited by amigadave 01.08.2011 - 17:05 ]

Its listed on a local auction site so I am unable to try it before buying. Here are the listed specs:
Xserve G4 Dual 1.33 GHz
2Mb cache per processor
1GB DDR DSRam
Display card
2 1GB ethernet ports
firewire front and back
2 usb
x2 60GB drives plus additional apple drive module with 250GB drive.

I also thought it may be similar enough to the usual power mac to work. I know i could jusst buy a stanard tower but being an audio geek I have a thing for rack mount kit.