Darwin 7.0.1 iso?

michaelsanford · #1 December 9th, 2003, 04:39 PM

http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/...win-701.iso.gz
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/309

The description in VT says that it corresponds to Mac OS X 10.3 (even though somehow 10.3.1 has Darwin 7.0.0), and that it's a CD ISO.

If I burn this ISO, and upgrade Darwin by booting from it, what's going to happen to my system? Am I going to lose data?

Has anyone done this? Any experiences?

Most importantly, if this is a stable release, as it purports to be, why wasn't it ever included in Software Update?

Thanks!

ksv · #2 December 9th, 2003, 05:46 PM

As far as I remember, there is no option to do an upgrade with the Darwin install CD. 10.3.x updates will update Darwin anyway, so I don't really see the purpose

Darkshadow · #3 December 9th, 2003, 08:38 PM

The 7.0.1 Darwin release came out after the 10.3.1 release, that's why it wasn't updated.

michaelsanford · #4 December 9th, 2003, 10:17 PM

So, darkshadow, would you suggest that I update to 7.0.1, or should I just wait for 10.3.2?

naodx · #5 December 10th, 2003, 12:26 AM

Think of Darwin as a unix/linux distro, it isn't made to update OS X. Yes Darwin is the underpinnings to OS X, but I don't think that it was ever meant to be used in the way you are describing.

RacerX · #6 December 10th, 2003, 12:32 AM

Apple doesn't usually release the corresponding version of Darwin until after Mac OS X has been updated.

And Mac OS X is not designed to have Darwin updated separately from the regular updates. If you have 10.3.1 installed, you should already be at 7.1.

Want to find out what version you are running now?

Open the terminal and enter the following:

Code:

uname -sr

Unless you do not want to be running Mac OS X, you should not be playing with Darwin on a system with Mac OS X installed.

There you have it.

naodx · #7 December 10th, 2003, 12:51 AM

Racer X,

Not to contradict you, as I agree with what you said, but running uname -sr via the terminal tells me that I have Darwin 7.0.0. And yes, I am running 10.3.1.

More for your info than anything else.

RacerX · #8 December 10th, 2003, 01:08 AM

I don't have 10.3.1 running here, which was why I said "should already be at 7.1". That is according to the Apple version guide lines that were changed back in late 2001 where Mac OS X v10.1.1 was matched with Darwin version 5.1. Apple has held that correspondence at least through the version I'm running (10.2.6, Darwin 6.6).

Of course, 10.3 seems to have had more trouble then Apple may have expected, forcing them to rush out an update.

(It was also why I suggested running uname to find out, as I can't currently

)