How To Install NeXT OPENSTEP 4.2 in VirtualBox (Tutorial)

[@koset]

Michael, I just built a Vbox from your instructions. I love it! I was once a NeXT employee. thanks a million!

[@hamzasafdari9360]

Wow!! A NeXT employee?

[@psionicjake]

How cool!!

[@hillstones]

Awesome tutorial! I just finished installing OpenStep in VirtualBox and your directions are perfect! So fun to play with OpenStep. I worked at the SDSU computer store back in 1993 and we had a NeXT computer on display. No one bought it...it was $10K, but the operating system and PostScript Display was amazing compared to the PCs and Macs at the time. Thanks for the video and now I can mess around with OpenStep.

[@reyarqueza7627]

Same at SFSU. We had a NeXT lab with so many pizza boxes, black and white, color, and a cube with a monster black CRT. After I graduated I heard they recycled all of them :( missed out on freebie NeXT hardware!

[@MegaManNeo]

I have gotten over that video of your just now and I've got to say, seeing these non flat icons on that non flat GUI is pretty stylish to see again. Granted, this OS comes from one of the masterminds behind OSX - yes - but it doesn't change facts that it looks really good, even in black and white.

[@pedroseoane]

This system remains alive in MacOS (in part and internals backends of the software). Maybe not a bad product, only very expensive workstations for those years.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

And iOS too.

[@Blorguehad]

Michael! Its been like 3 hours and I'm still installing lol. Thanks for the guide, idk y my vm is so slow

[@radixcomet]

Same, the OS is just UNGODLY slow to install

[@Charleh-tk2bw]

This video was AWESOME!! I loved getting to follow it step by step the way you did it! I actually did this right alongside your video in VirtualBox, this was fun!

[@Teeh0]

Very functional, but please remember in the future that su and sudo are very different things.

[@pitapitabread]

i like to run *sudo su -c sudo fdisk* to be a mega super super user

[@tonydunkle1520]

Didn't really have a reason to watch this but it's interesting to see how involved it was to install things from floppy.

[@skorppaskorpioni8718]

Thank You. I got your help and driver to work with the pre-installed openstep 4.2 virtualbox and enjoy the color openstep environment.

[@logansorenssen]

If you care about sound, VirtualBox can emulate a Soundblaster 16, which will work just fine.

[@chadhardin9141]

It's very cool that you did this but what might be even better is a VirtualBox Appliance with OpenStep already installed. If I can get it to install locally, I will make an Appliance image and share with my friends.

[@leediffusion]

Back in the 90's and early days of Linux I used Afterstep and Window Maker as my desktop environment (in fact you still can). Great we can use and try the OS which inspired that software!

[@TheLinuxWarrior]

Great Video, Great Tutorial. I have installed it on my X220 High Sierra Hackintosh under Virtual Box Version 6.014 It was easy. I will try to convert the HardDrive to run under VMWARE Fusion as well. Thumbs UP and Greetings from Germany

[@carlospc866]

Awesome video, now I have OpenStep on my VM. Thanks!!

[@MichaelMJD]

You’re welcome!

[@peterchapman69]

Great Tutorial - just a simple one that stumped me for ages - the boot floppies all seem to download as .floppyimage files - to use them in virtualbox simply rename or copy them to .img files :)

[@MitchellShilling]

I don't have the VESA display device, even though I downloaded the operating system that you provided in the link under the video description. Can someone please help me out?

[@V01D_Protogen]

wow. I remember NeXT Step. I used to use a NeXT Cube for Unigraphics CAD at my job.

[@bobhewitt1065]

Great info. Many thanks. The same procedure works with Parallels 16 on an Intel Mac. Just rename the floppy images to .fdd.

[@486paradise]

When it says startup completes, machine hangs, I tried rebooting by shutting down and nothing, hope to find a solution :(

[@idevicecollectorfilms]

Thanks so much!!! I love NeXT OPENSTEP!!!

[@hdfsyu]

NeXTSTEP*

[@nicklamn]

@@hdfsyu it was rebranded to openstep.

[@meiowalot7570]

This is amazing, thank you so much! I was able to follow these directions and get it up and running in color and it's so cool. I had a Nextstation color turbo and it was a pretty nifty machine. This definitely brought back some memories! Iv'e installed the Developer Tools and just had to write Hello World and play around with Interface Builder again. A few questions: My mouse is extremely jumpy in V.B., almost to the point of being unusable. Have you experienced that? Also I'm using this on a Mac and I can't figure out what key to use for "Cmd". For instance to switch the views on File Viewer, using B, I, and L, I can't access these with the keyboard using any of the qualifier keys. Can you get this to work? Thank you again for your work on this!

[@rxgtv]

Left cmd

[@caycloker901]

EXELENT EXPLANATION! YOU ARE EXEMPLAR SIR THANKS DEEPLIES!!

[@glddesk]

I just like videos of OS , standalone, multiboot or even VM's. just installed it on virtual box. Thanks.

[@TheGlennLife]

Random question, is your background a view from the top of mt. Mitchell?

[@jwoolson]

Thank you! Excellent, clear instructions.

[@superviewer]

Thanks a lot. I must try this just to experience Adobe Illustrator on NeXT :D

[@superviewer]

Correction: After installing I realized I couldn't run Illustrator as it was (of course) for 68k, not Intel that OpenSTEP is running on :-( the old dream will have to wait a bit longer.

[@MrXavitaker]

@@superviewer Take a look at "Previous", is a Next Computer emulator, you can install the Motorola 68000 version in a Linux PC

[@superviewer]

@@MrXavitaker Thanks. Yes, someone else mentioned too that Previous is the way to try Illustrator on there.

[@aaaalex1994]

You can also log in as root to avoid the permission issues: - Double click the date icon from the Dock to open System Preferences. - Select the lock icon and press "Create" to set a password to the default user. - After you done that, go back to the File Viewer and click on "Log Out". - Now you can log in as root (the password is a blank space). To log in again to the default user, type "me" as the user name and type the password you set before in System Preferences.

[@georgelacy1332]

Thanks! This worked for Parallels too!

[@PhirePhlame]

I'm curious, is the trademark NeXTSTEP two-bit color depth (black, white, and two shades of grey) an actual PC color mode, or is it being done through a different color mode?

[@sewashburn0529]

Color?! Noooooo! Run it in grayscale like it was meant to be run. Great video! Now on to OS/2...

[@fffmpeg]

why does it have color if it wasn't meant to have it

[@christianreck2628]

Thanks a lot! Great tutorial, very well explained!!!

[@pianokeyjoe]

For those that were not able to download the archive provided here, I just did it on a Linux system and while it does download and decrypt and work, it did bog down my firefox so much after it finished downloading I had to restart my browser. It is more of the MEGA download site than the file itself. I think in windows you WILL have issues downloading this as MEGA like any other site like it will have ads and bog the system down. Now on topic with the video, Michael, what OS are you running virtualbox on? And what version of VB is it? Also, what are the other settings you set or left default, for this OS to work? I noticed a few things about the motherboard chipset types and amd-v or some such? PIIIX or P4X or some such? I know I have had issues installing qnx or linux if the chipset type is not right, if the system does not conform to a period correct setup to install older unix OS it does tend to fail due to the chipsets for the drives and VGA,DMA controllers,etc not being detected or able to load and activate. I have NeXTSTEP 3.2,3.3 and OpenSTEP 4.2 user and server but yeah,never thought to try on VB. Also,if you used ATI Mach64 based cards and Soundblaster 16 audio, you can make this work in real life hardware with a pentium or P2/3 system. I will try the real deal once I can write the floppies lol!

[@reyarqueza7627]

Did you get it working?

[@vintagecarthage4078]

I once tried to installed that OS but i did it wrong so i gave up but you helped me thanks (you got a like from a 13-year old who loves your vids)

[@podlinux]

I think with these types of videos sticking with pillarboxing instead of fill of adjacent windows would make it look not so strange and or confusing.

[@Beliar275]

Found this after over 2yrs , tried out .. install runs well for the first part but then I struggle ... In the section where you install graphics driver - my mouse is behaving erratic ... the mouse pointer is jumping wildly around - if I manage at all to access the video driver button, I cant go down to the scrollbar in the videodriver selection - any way to control that without mouse? If it was windows I know how to access the controls / navigate between them - but here .. Next/Openstep seems to avoid any "known" key-combo or key-shortcut (tab-key) ??

[@mglmouser]

Sadly, this doesn't work in VirtualBox 6.2 under Mac OS Catalina: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine OpenSTEP. The virtual machine 'OpenSTEP' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1). Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: MachineWrap Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}

[@croppedrubbish]

i got it before and it doesn't let me in after the circle stops i'm reinstalling this and now i keep getting system panics

[@Bagpiper513]

Is there any way to transfer files to the VM? I'm trying to install an ssh package I found online and I haven't been successful mounting .img files to the floppy drive.

[@Reachowt]

I want to try this, but I'm in the process of doing some house cleaning, deciding on my next OS, and trying to use virtual box(which I barely touched upon many many years ago). The comments look encouraging, but my point for commenting is...am I the only one who notices the links do not work for virtualbox as well as no discussions on the forum link? Not that I can't find virtual box...but dead links detract a little. Thanks, looking forward to trying this.

[@wyattthompson3471]

I tried installing it but it stopped at startup complete. How can I fix this?

[@YaroKasear]

Tiny quibble: Steve Jobs didn't leave Apple in the 1980s. He was fired. Steve Wozniak was the one who actually "left."

[@RodrigoBadin]

Thanks for the video!

[@MichaelMJD]

You’re welcome!

[@Skittleology]

Michael, can you fix the download link please? It says the decryption key in invalid.

[@pianokeyjoe]

Are you serious? The downloads are encrypted? Well guess what? I found the OS downloads for free on archive.org. The driver disks for real hardware too. Not sure if you can get virtualbox drivers if Michael encrypted the files on this video link.

[@williamsquibb5249]

Worked fine for me using 7zip

[@dallase1]

Why do you install the Network Driver if you are not going to configure it to use it?

[@Bassquake76]

Tried this and got to installing the VBE 2.0 driver but on reboot, it now says Can't find $LBL on bootup. What gives??

[@Josh.Davidson]

Very nice!

[@MichaelMJD]

thanks!

[@Josh.Davidson]

You're welcome! Enjoy all your videos.

[@markusTegelane]

0 Hz refresh rate?

[@thelballyt]

I love playing all my games at 0fps

[@irenazgaljic4000]

Thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@rafaelbitencourt8561]

The father of MacOS ❤❤❤

[@alerey4363]

title is wrong; NextStep was the original proprietary OS from NeXT Computer by Steve Jobs; the open source version that came later was called OpenStep

[@philipbeauchamp1073]

Good OS but I tried Installing the OS42MachUserPatch4 Package and It keeps saying Errors while installing

[@xBioTV]

where is the drauga1 collab

[@meowskullsgaming]

What? Really?

[@xBioTV]

No, it was more of a suggestion :P

[@meowskullsgaming]

:c

[@Harmonie432Hz]

So helpfull !! many tks

[@ww21943]

Is it possible to run open step on a Raspberry Pi?

[@Spetterman66]

very cool

[@themacintoshnerd]

Can you make one of these videos for Rhapsody? there seems to be no documentation on installing it on Vbox

[@hamzasafdari9360]

Yeah

[@0xbenedikt]

You got a bit paranoid with you not showing your network settings. Nobody is going to be able to do anything evil with your internal IP address (which is most likely 192.168.1.x or 192.168.0.x) anyway or the random MAC address of the VM's NIC.

[@pianokeyjoe]

I was wondering what was up with all that fuzzing up myself.

[@yevgenygandelman437]

Hi how i can install NeXT from zero to PC without virtual box? Thanks

[@VLPozitiff]

Idk why but everything worked out until i rebooted the system and it asked me to write Control-C, which i did, but then openstep kinda froze. Anyways, Ty for the guide.

[@pacman2k1]

could this work on my ibm thinkpad 600e?? without vm of course ;)

[@needsublol3530]

mjd can you do it in VM Ware

[@shymon512]

How do I install graphics driver on NeXTStep 3.3?

[@anguscastro8079]

Can I do this on my windows xp laptop

[@KowboyUSA]

New OS to me.

[@theadamswagg4966]

I know this is out of topic but can you make a tutorial on how you can install vmware tools on whistler build 2257

[@fart1234.]

can i run it in 86 box

[@caincha]

Is it pretty much the same thing to install on a Mac…? :)

[@hamzasafdari9360]

Yes

[@meligarcia]

Thanks when you're gonna post a VMware version?

[@rxgtv]

It works. He just chose VirtualBox

[@meligarcia]

@@rxgtv man I made this comment like 2 years ago don't necropost

[@techvideos8664]

Wow. Took me ages failed thanks I'm gonna try this

[@romanvonurgen]

i have error on root device

[@linux_doggo]

the decrpytion key is invalid. Damnit.

[@johnjoyce]

Well produced and nicely focused on key details. You say “go ahead and” way too much.

[@EliasAndradeoriginal]

why the is no color?

[@louisvilletech7765]

cool man

[@EugeniaLoli]

I wish you had showed how to setup networking, as it's rather difficult with virtual box. It requires a bridged adapter apparently.

[@matty2568]

the link doesn't work, it asks for a password

[@djpecchia]

it would be interesting to try this on pcem :)

[@GlaucoBasilio]

Nice, thank you so much!

[@zeon7_7]

vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root system panic

[@minusmeerkat9463]

How to connect to a network?

[@courier7]

MinusMeerkat946 Virtual box does this on its own normally. But I would suggest if you want to actually use this on your computer to install gnustep or window maker on any Linux distro.

[@NewRepublicMapper]

The Method is Just the Same In Rhapsody OS

[@kibawolf2501]

i seem to keep getting an error saying the Floppy is undreadable yet there is no disk in the virtual drive, is this alright or did i goof somewhere?

[@m.z.2466]

kiba_wolf apparently Openstep gives that error after every boot regardless of whether a floppy is inserted or not

[@hanifavicinna8218]

i have install this at 2015 . The most frustrating operating system i ever install on VitualBox. I spend 4-5 hours to figure it out.

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

funny that you could actually call it OsOS 😂

[@WolfireGaming]

"Unclick your mouse" -MJD

[@diamondman1543]

this does not work

[@gustavstresmannmullerbraun]

vmware please

[@fart1234.]

tried it doesn't work

[@brewHamm]

it took forever to get through the GUI part of installation xD

[@handle535]

You use 'go ahead and...' about as much as a 13 year old girl uses 'like'. Seriously, for all you Americans, there is no need to say things like 'What you're gonna wanna do is X' - just say 'Do X' and instead of 'Go ahead and do X' - just say 'Do X'.

[@williamsquibb5249]

Trevor Welsby I agree I’m English and always say bloody hell when somebody says “what you’re gunna wanna do is x” or “go ahead and do x”

[@СашаМаксимов-ц4е]

Что это за дичь? Шиндомс четыре ревайфт?

[@williamsquibb5249]

Don’t set your hard drive size to 6gb I really regretted doing it

[@handsomecomputer2109]

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