Quick Start

The following is a step-by-step guide that shows you how to get SheepShaver up and running in the quickest possible way. We assume that you are running on a PowerMac that already has MacOS installed on a partition of your hard drive and that you have booted into Linux.

  1. Start the "SheepShaver" program. The "SheepShaver Settings" window will appear.
  2. Click on "Start". SheepShaver will try to detect on which partition MacOS is installed and should then start booting MacOS.
  3. To quit SheepShaver, select "Shutdown" from the Finder's "Special" menu.
When SheepShaver hangs or crashes in fullscreen mode, pressing Ctrl-Esc should quit it and restore the display.

In fullscreen mode, press Ctrl-Tab to suspend SheepShaver and return to the normal X11 destop. Press space inside the "SheepShaver suspended" window to reactivate it.

One word of caution:

Volumes which are used by SheepShaver must not also be mounted under Linux while SheepShaver is running. You will lose data and corrupt the volume if you do this!
SheepShaver User's Guide