Re: [Newbies] separating app from platform-specific parts of image?

2008-07-15 Thread John Chandler
I now need to see why the RFB package appears not to be working on Debian. I loaded the package on my laptop, started the server, and verified that I could connect to it with Chicken of the VNC. I did not stop the server, I saved the changes with a slightly altered name, and scp'd the

Re: [Newbies] separating app from platform-specific parts of image?

2008-07-13 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Saturday 12 Jul 2008 2:06:50 pm John Chandler wrote: OK, but if my image is for Mac OS X PPC, and the target machine is   Debian x86, will the image I copy to it even start up? Image files can be opened on any platform. Make sure that you get the *virtual machine* for the Debian x86. Install

Re: [Newbies] separating app from platform-specific parts of image?

2008-07-12 Thread John Chandler
On Jul 11, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Janko Mivšek wrote: Hi John, John Chandler wrote: I understand that I can run a Squeak package that implements VNC, and that there is a headless mode that should allow me to launch Squeak w/o any GUI. It is not clear to me which parts of this are

Re: [Newbies] separating app from platform-specific parts of image?

2008-07-12 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 10:36 +0200, John Chandler wrote: On Jul 11, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Janko Mivšek wrote: Hi John, John Chandler wrote: I understand that I can run a Squeak package that implements VNC, and that there is a headless mode that should allow me to launch Squeak w/o

Re: [Newbies] separating app from platform-specific parts of image?

2008-07-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 12.07.2008 um 19:24 schrieb John Chandler: On Jul 12, 2008, at 1:52 PM, David T. Lewis wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:36:50AM +0200, John Chandler wrote: OK, but if my image is for Mac OS X PPC, and the target machine is Debian x86, will the image I copy to it even start up? Yes, it

Re: [Newbies] separating app from platform-specific parts of image?

2008-07-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 11.07.2008 um 19:05 schrieb John Chandler: I need to run Seaside on a Debian Linux machine (a public web server) to which I do not have console access. I do not have access to *any* Debian Linux machine, in fact, I have my PowerBook G4, and that's it. I understand that I can run a

Re: [Newbies] separating app from platform-specific parts of image?

2008-07-11 Thread Janko Mivšek
Hi John, John Chandler wrote: I understand that I can run a Squeak package that implements VNC, and that there is a headless mode that should allow me to launch Squeak w/o any GUI. It is not clear to me which parts of this are platform-independent and how to get them loaded into a running