Installation of PearPC

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If you install Mac OS X on PearPC, you will not have the network. To be able to benefit from it you will have to install the adequate drivers.
It is then enough to recover OpenVPN then to install it on your Windows XP.

You will have to unzip the PowerPC archive in a specific folder. You wil put into a configuration file, your disk image and ISO of Panther.
PearPC is now installed.
Install also PearPC Control Panel in order to create configuration files.

We now will create our first configuration file and launch PearPC for the first time !
We will use PearPC Control Panel for the creation of our configuration file.

Open PearPC Control Panel and choose "New Configuration File" in the "File" menu.
A wizard is now open.
The first screen of the wizard ask to you to indicate where is PearPC and your virutal disk (image disk).

Next, setting up quantity of RAM memory which you wish to allocate in PearPC.
Must allocate a minimum of 256 Mo of memory, and if you can, try 384 Mo or even 512 Mo.
In the configuration file of PearPC, quantity of RAM is an hexadecimal value, so you can setting up manually, in order to have that you wish.
128 megs RAM
memory_size=0x8000000
256 megs RAM
memory_size=0x10000000
384 megs RAM
memory_size=0x18000000
512 megs RAM
memory_size=0x20000000
640 megs RAM
memory_size=0x28000000
768 megs RAM
memory_size=0x30000000
896 megs RAM
memory_size=0x38000000
In the type of processor, leave the G3 value, which will emulate a processor PowerPC G3.

The second screen of the wizard, permit to you to setting video resolution, number of colors, and kind of CPU you wish emulate.
You will have to show the path of the file video.x in the field Video Driver.
The value Video Redraw Rate depends partly on your configuration so test several value until finding the most adapted.

In the part PearPC Networking, specify if you want to emulate a network card and so yes which type of card. In the majority of the cases, you will use the Realtek type. Leave the value of the field MAC address.

Don't touch at the Additional Arguments for the moment, but nothing prevents you to play with a little more late.

Next, click on "Finish" and give a name at your configuration file and save it.
We suggest you to save in the same of the folder of your PearPC.

Now that your configuration file is created, launch your file in PearPC Control Panel and choose "CD-Rom Device is installed" and indicate the folder of the image of first CD of installation of Panther. Then, double click on the icon of the configuration file which you have just created. If a screen requires of you to choose the peripheral of boot to be selected, chosissez CD-Rom for the moment.

At this moment, you have three posibilties :
A kernel panic
You have a kernel panic if you have specified bad settings in your configuration file. Generally, the problem comes from one of the parameters concerning the video or the memory. We advise you in this case, to edit the configuration file manually and remake a test.

A configuration problem
You have a configuration problem if you have specified a bad value during the wizard. For example, you have choose G4 instead of G3.

A success !!!
The installation screen of Panther appear in a window.