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/
