Tuesday, January 25, 2011
no success making a netbook boot Apple and Windows!
I've tried everything to get Windows XP first on the FAT partition and then on the Free Space partition that iDeneb Disk Utility makes, but I can't get it to boot back into the Leopard (Mac) system.
I give up. I'll either have to be content with Windows 7 Starter on my netbook with all the functionality, or be content with only iDeneb (Leopard 10.5.8) and getting on the internet with a USB G3 stick, or, perhaps, buy an AirBook ethernet adapter to link my University Ethernet ADSL cable.
I thought of Apple's system 7.5, that I used to have on my Mac from Univ. of Michigan. I thought of those days, how simple and logical they were, as I struggled with all the problems with Microsoft's System 7...it won't even network with a Windows XP computer. Perhaps the new macbooks can't either. Perhaps it is just my old PowerBook G4, with Tiger, that can network to Windows XP.
Ah.
I give up. I'll either have to be content with Windows 7 Starter on my netbook with all the functionality, or be content with only iDeneb (Leopard 10.5.8) and getting on the internet with a USB G3 stick, or, perhaps, buy an AirBook ethernet adapter to link my University Ethernet ADSL cable.
I thought of Apple's system 7.5, that I used to have on my Mac from Univ. of Michigan. I thought of those days, how simple and logical they were, as I struggled with all the problems with Microsoft's System 7...it won't even network with a Windows XP computer. Perhaps the new macbooks can't either. Perhaps it is just my old PowerBook G4, with Tiger, that can network to Windows XP.
Ah.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
A solution to installing Windows on the iDeneb netbook
Jan 22, found a solution to the problem I was having in not being able to install XP in the DOS partition of IDeneb. Found that Microsoft has a DVD USB tool downloadable from their Windows 7 store. You put the Windows 7 iso on your desktop and, with the tool installed on your cruzer, when you run the tool, it erases the cruzer and puts on a bootable Windows 7 on the Cruzer or DVD--your choice.
So tomorrow I will format the netbook with iDeneb, install iDeneb Leopard, and then install Windows 7. The Mac Mini OSX guide says System 7 should have all the drivers for the netbook! Hurrah.
So tomorrow I will format the netbook with iDeneb, install iDeneb Leopard, and then install Windows 7. The Mac Mini OSX guide says System 7 should have all the drivers for the netbook! Hurrah.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Leopard or System 7?
After trying to leave a primary partition as "Free Space" and then as DOS, I still could not put WindowsXP on that partition after putting iDeneb (Leopard) on to boot up as Mac. I then tried putting iDeneb on what I thought was free space on the partition for Windows and tried to put the HP windows 7 Starter, but that erased everything. Now I am thinking of getting Windows 7 from torrent and installing it with the USB device from Microsoft.
Meanwhile, I'm at Starbucks at Doha just using the Windows 7 Starter, not having yet decided whether to go ahead with the iDeneb install again.
With the iDeneb, I could have a work computer just for composing stuff in the old Mac syle and storing stuff. But it doesn't connect to wifi or take movies with isight the way the HP Mini does by itself with only System 7 Starter.
Meanwhile, I'm at Starbucks at Doha just using the Windows 7 Starter, not having yet decided whether to go ahead with the iDeneb install again.
With the iDeneb, I could have a work computer just for composing stuff in the old Mac syle and storing stuff. But it doesn't connect to wifi or take movies with isight the way the HP Mini does by itself with only System 7 Starter.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Leopard 10.5.8 -x = "start in safe mode"
When I checked "Activity Monitor" in Utilties, I found that I actually did not have dual core running in my iDeneb computer; so I tried the code suggested by a hacker. I made a plist that I put the words cu=2 in the place of cp=1 and called it apple.comBoot.plist-backup, and put it in the System Configuration folder, then, applied this formula in Terminal
sudo cp /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist-backup
Actually, this transerred the cp-1 to my plist-backup; so I learned that I had to kind of reverse the source. When I did that, it did indeed transfer the cpu-2 to the com.apple.Boot.plist. But when I tried to restart, I couldn't get back into the iDeneb. I had to start over with the restoraton CD's of the Windows 7 Starter so that I could apply the iDeneb installer.
I guess, even though I might try the little change with Terminal, and Then, run the voodoo to reset the PS2 mouse--one of the things that seem to have gone wrong, it might work. But, on the other hand, I don't think I want to try...could, perhaps...but the error report, as far as I could see, also said that the computer could no longer recognise what system it is running. I have learned that one can type -x to start up iDeneb in safe mode, or start Leopard in safe mode.
sudo cp /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist-backup
Actually, this transerred the cp-1 to my plist-backup; so I learned that I had to kind of reverse the source. When I did that, it did indeed transfer the cpu-2 to the com.apple.Boot.plist. But when I tried to restart, I couldn't get back into the iDeneb. I had to start over with the restoraton CD's of the Windows 7 Starter so that I could apply the iDeneb installer.
I guess, even though I might try the little change with Terminal, and Then, run the voodoo to reset the PS2 mouse--one of the things that seem to have gone wrong, it might work. But, on the other hand, I don't think I want to try...could, perhaps...but the error report, as far as I could see, also said that the computer could no longer recognise what system it is running. I have learned that one can type -x to start up iDeneb in safe mode, or start Leopard in safe mode.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Apple Leopard 10.5.8
I hope Apple won't see this, because actually Apple is one part of my self taught understanding of Computers. I first came across the Mac Plus in the Univ. of Mich. Property Disposition warehouse where the Univ. re-sells the computers that university departments have used before. I got up to system 7.5, which is available on Apple's web site, and runs on the nice little machines that were somewhat similar to the Mac Plus, but whose name I forget for the moment now. I was on the internet with that machine, and even made web pages with Bernie Dodge's Homemaker, which I still use. I put 7.5 on a notebook computer I used to link up by dia.-up at a Kinko's in Dearborn. I even reserved my bed at the d'Artagnan youth hostel in Paris with that Apple notebook and my telephone, dial-up, free, at Kinkos.
Now everything is broadband, but I still think Adam Angst--what was his name's--book on the the net advocating simplicity is best.
And now, today, I have a form of Leopard, even though I am still faithful to the last PowerBook G4's which could take Tiger with system 9 classic if you want.
Read on...
After years of my personal boycotting of the intel duo chip that Apple adopted after 2005 in its last Tiger OSX system programs, I bought a relatively inexpensive "Netbook" and installed iDeneb, the Leopard 10.5.6 program. It took me a long time and many trial and errors to install Leopard on a PC like my Netbook, I still hadn't got it working with the "dual core." Finally last night, I tried this system of just deleting the cpu=1 line so that it would recognize two cpu's. Now, for the first time, I have a computer that is running on the dual core system.
Here is a cut and paste from the little operation I did with "Terminal" to edit the plist in the System file. Otherwise non-editable.
Fix CPU (Allow dual-core)
If you start ActivityMonitor before doing this you will see that OSX only sees 1 processor (press the CPU tab below te process list). To allow it to use the second core do the following:
1. Open Terminal when logged in as an Admin user.
2. Gain root access (“sudo su -” and enter your user password).
3. cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
4. Recommend backing up “com.apple.Boot.plist”. Copy it to your home directory or somewhere else.
5. Edit “com.apple.Boot.plist”. Use vi (ie: vi com.apple.Boot.plist). Move the cursor to the line that has “cpus=1 -f“, then press lowercase d twice to remove it.If there are no other lines between the line with “Kernel Flags” and the next line, then delete the Kernel Flags line as well. Save the file by pressing uppercase Z twice.
6. Reboot
7. Launch ActivityMonitor and confirm OSX now sees both cores.
This cut and paste is from an August 30, 2009 post by Tiny Enormous, here:
http://blog.tinyenormous.com/2009/08/30/hackintosh-hp-mini-1000/
Now everything is broadband, but I still think Adam Angst--what was his name's--book on the the net advocating simplicity is best.
And now, today, I have a form of Leopard, even though I am still faithful to the last PowerBook G4's which could take Tiger with system 9 classic if you want.
Read on...
After years of my personal boycotting of the intel duo chip that Apple adopted after 2005 in its last Tiger OSX system programs, I bought a relatively inexpensive "Netbook" and installed iDeneb, the Leopard 10.5.6 program. It took me a long time and many trial and errors to install Leopard on a PC like my Netbook, I still hadn't got it working with the "dual core." Finally last night, I tried this system of just deleting the cpu=1 line so that it would recognize two cpu's. Now, for the first time, I have a computer that is running on the dual core system.
Here is a cut and paste from the little operation I did with "Terminal" to edit the plist in the System file. Otherwise non-editable.
Fix CPU (Allow dual-core)
If you start ActivityMonitor before doing this you will see that OSX only sees 1 processor (press the CPU tab below te process list). To allow it to use the second core do the following:
1. Open Terminal when logged in as an Admin user.
2. Gain root access (“sudo su -” and enter your user password).
3. cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
4. Recommend backing up “com.apple.Boot.plist”. Copy it to your home directory or somewhere else.
5. Edit “com.apple.Boot.plist”. Use vi (ie: vi com.apple.Boot.plist). Move the cursor to the line that has “cpus=1 -f“, then press lowercase d twice to remove it.If there are no other lines between the line with “Kernel Flags” and the next line, then delete the Kernel Flags line as well. Save the file by pressing uppercase Z twice.
6. Reboot
7. Launch ActivityMonitor and confirm OSX now sees both cores.
This cut and paste is from an August 30, 2009 post by Tiny Enormous, here:
http://blog.tinyenormous.com/2009/08/30/hackintosh-hp-mini-1000/
