check out the webcam, its snowing at brighton right now. i am stoked!

Brighton - The Mountain - Webcams

I read up on Wiki and realized it should work. In all my IT years, I have stayed away from Mac and if I burned ISO's, they were for Windows, in Windows or Linux, in Linux..

I'm well aware of how applications are OS specific.. ;) Short of running emulation SW..

I'm trying to get Snow Leopard to install on a Intel 945gclf2d Atom MB. I have a feeling the SL DVD I bought the other day has the 10.6.2 kernel, which they dropped Atom support.

Last night, I had managed to mount the SL DVD under Ubuntu and copy the data to the HD... I put a modified kernel in the HD copy and now I need to create an ISO, then hope it works...

The other choice is to find an earlier copy of SL...

well, you never know.... i had someone call me about a modem problem and in the middle of the conversation they unplugged the phone in order to plug it into the modem. they didn't call me back for 20 minutes.

I tried to make a copy of my SL DVD and even though it mounted and looked the same, it would NOT install from the copy.

I was able to borrow a version of Leopard and that seems to be booting on the Atom MB... IF this works, I still have a speed bump... If I upgrade with the SL copy I bought, I think it may hang after it reboots....

I think I need to make a new SL DVD copy with the hacked 10.6.2 kernel that enables the Atom proc again and also is designed for a 64bit proc (this Atom is) and dual core.

So far, the borrowed version is working.. I finally got to the first screen. :)

Next....

It went to the Installer GUI and reports that the OS "can't be installed on this computer."

I have two chances left... Then I am out of ideas without having a working Mac.

check out InsanelyMac

i am betting there is an answer there for you.

I am going to dig into it again. there is an answer, but most need the use of an existing Mac to tweak the SW a bit. I've just about exhausted all the ways of doing this without a Mac. I know they are patching Leopard to work - I expect that this is why it got to the installer GUI (non patched DVD) then told me to F off.

I have been using Slackware Linux petty much since it first came out in the early 90's, but I rarely setup the boxes to load xwin. I used a copy of Ubuntu that I had downloaded, but it is lacking "root" and using 'sudo' for everything is getting to be a pain in the ass. I'm pretty sure I can edit the OSX files I need to in Linux, then create an ISO, but all the help uses 'Mac'...

Dinner is up right now... More to come in a little while.

good night, all.

Night...

Trying to install a slightly different version of SL now.... Please work...

Night boys... got all my stuff gathered up for the PCA meeting in the morning.... 3 members of our Bfast club are actually going to have breakfast together tomorrow... :D

Anyways got my new laptop loaded up... Going to get the software tomorrow and see if it is really as a big of a slam dunk as my guide says it is....

Night..

Made progress. Was able to get SL installed, but then on reboot, nothing. It hangs at the Darwin bootloader. Can't get the OS to boot off of the HD. I tried the bootloader cd too.

I sure hope dad is planning on driving in the morning. I can't sleep. :(

I managed to install a modified kernel. It now almost booted from the HD. Before, it would lock the pc up and I had to do a hard reset.

Almost still ain't a win Dave. :p

Day ain't over yet...

Ya ya. Talk is cheap. :p

Morning, folks.

I just noticed. Today, exactly 5 years ago, this durn for'ner joined the Pelican ranks.

bit of saturday work to improve the cash flow...