Comments on: Rhapsody DR2

By: Lukast

Lukast — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:08:26 +0000

Hi Michael, thank you very much for your guide, is really awsome. The guide is really easy to follow and now I have a Rhapsody DR2 install working 100%. Video, Mouse, Audio, Network (Bridged), CDROM, Floppy(virtual), Omniweb, OmniView, OmniPDF everything working in my Latitude D620 (WinXPSP3) on VMware Workstation v 5.0.0.13124.

Just a minor modification:

In step 7 for Omniweb to work, I had to decompress the contents from [CDROM]/RhapsodyDR2/Omni/OmniFrameworks.pkg/OmniFrameworks.tar.gz to /Local/Library/Frameworks

and also decompress the contents from [CDROM]/RhapsodyDR2/Omni/OmniComponents.pkg/OmniComponents.tar.gz to /Local/Library/Components

That’s it, now i have a piece of history at my fingertips. Thanks!

LuKasT

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:01:57 +0000

there are “ready” torrent HD images whith all the installed stuff? It will be amazing to fly back to that piece of history!…

By: Giovanni Bertelli

Giovanni Bertelli — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:14:21 +0000

Hello! I really interested in finding rhapsody cds and floppies because i’d really like to work with it… Could you please send me the links to download them? Thank you very much bye!

By: mfbernstein

mfbernstein — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:24:22 +0000

To properly install the Omni stuff, you can use the installer.sh command. ie:

$ installer.sh /RhapsodyDR2/Omni/OmniWeb.pkg

Note that OmniFrameworks and OmniComponents are required by all of the Omni apps.

For networking, if you’re using NAT, you can find out the router, DNS and subnet mask from “/Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/vmnet8/dhcpd.conf”

Thanks for the guide.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:35:08 +0000

Mike,
Thanks for catching those problems. I’ve corrected the instructions.

With regard to the network numbers it may be that VMware has been changing their network configuration for VMware Fusion. I picked up the numbers that I used from a working Windows VM. On my system, the network in my current Rhapsody VM is working fine so maybe the network settings need to be checked on a per system basis.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:23:12 +0000

Thank you so much for the guide! I now have a fully functional install of Rhapsody. Unfortunately there are a couple minor errors in the instructions:

There’s a typo in step 4 on line 8 of the single user mode commands:

cp /mnt/*.drv .
This should be:
cp /mnt/*.tar .

Near the end of step 7 OmniWeb’s frameworks and components need to be installed in /Local/Library/ rather than just /Local/

Also, the the command to install OmniWeb’s components is missing – the command follows the same form as the frameworks installation.

One last issue I had was getting networking to function. The IP numbers provided didn’t work, so I copied the settings from a Windows VM that I was running:

IP address: 192.168.240.128
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Router address: 192.168.240.2
Name server address: 192.168.240.2

By: michael

michael — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:47:28 +0000

Kevin,
The network settings depend on the type of networking you choose in the VMware network settings for this Virtual Machine. If you choose “Connect directly to the physicial network (bridged)” then you should treat Rhapsody as another computer on your network and either set Rhapsody to use DNS, or statically allocate an IP in the network range that your router uses.

If instead (as used in these instructions), you set up the VMware network settings as “Share the host’s internet connection (NAT)”, then this means that you will be using the network address translation built into VMware. In this case, you should use the 192.168.56.x addresses given in my instructions, noting in particular that the router address is “192.168.56.2″ instead of the common “x.y.z.1″ address for routers.

Ensure that you have the network connected in VMware. You can also try to debug the problem in Rhapsody by opening a Terminal and using the command “ping 255.255.255.255″. If the Rhapsody network has started correctly then the ping command should get a response from the VMware virtual router. Use the virtual router address as both the DNS and router addresses in Rhapsody and you should be able to access the net.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:25:10 +0000

This is awesome!
Thanks for the help… I’d been trying to get this working.
I think I almost got it now… however… my network settings dont seem to be working. OmniWeb won’t load anything
I have the VMWare NAT netwroking enabled and I tried the same settings as yours but with no luck… should I be setting Rhapsody’s network settings to an IP matching my Mac running vmware.. or perhaps to an IP my router would give?
Thanks for the sweet giude!

By: Adonis

Adonis — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:15:04 +0000

Nice one!