johng4
June 29th, 2007, 01:54 PM
I'm no fan of MacOS. However, with my G4 iBook, I got a copy of OS X with iLife. I wanted to tinker around with GarageBand, and iMovie since all my Mac friends rave about their usability. I personally stick to Rosegarden/Ardour and Kino/LiVeS.
So begins my saga...
First off, my OS X CD's were recently "lost" (stolen, but I have no proof.. since that same CD packet contianed a version of Win2k3 server with 2 unactivated licenses as well), so I borrowed a copy of 10.3 Jaguar that was supposed to have iLife on it.
Well, a little background... I recently installed OS X 10.4 with a PPC DVD w/o iLife since my MOL partition was slow, and unresponsive. I needed a truly functional version of OS X to use with the people I provide tech support to, so I opted to just go ahead and repartition my drive and have a 12gb OS X install on my system.
The installation was mucked up by my screen defaulting to 256 color, of which it only decided to disp[lay 3 of (white, black and static). I did the installation blind, and eventually got it installed. Then, the display worked.
Everything was going fine until I booted back into my OS X installation only to find that the display had gone back to 256 color (again, mostly static/white/black). So, with several mac users assisting me, we tried to fix the display.. the ultimate idea was, "Just reinstall Jaguar, and then do an update."
Ok, sounds simple enough.. being a former windows user, I'm used to reinstalls, and there's nothing I'm afraid of losing on the mac partition, so lets do it.
Insert Jaguar CD... hit c to boot CD-ROM...
nothing.
Ok. Maybe the CD is dirty.
Clean CD. Insert Jaguar CD... hit c to boot CD-ROM...
nothing.
After 30 minutes of trying different things to boot the CD, finally we went back to plan A.. fix the current install, install iLife afterward. After numerous attempts of copying over display settings from other Macs in the office, and apple-option-p-r, apple-option-n-v... I managed to get the OS to update (the screen was that hard to read... couldn't find the updater). After the update, it finally fixed the display, and everything worked.
Then.. iLife. Unfortunatly, the copy of iLife we had was for Mactel, and the Jaguar disk only had iMovie.. not garageband.
Frustration building, we just ripped GarageBand off of one of the macs in the office, and after some tinkering we were able to get it to work.
After 3 hours, we finally got Mac OS X, to work on an iBook.
In retrospect, I can laugh.. though at the time I was cursing Mac for not wanting to install on an Apple PC.
So begins my saga...
First off, my OS X CD's were recently "lost" (stolen, but I have no proof.. since that same CD packet contianed a version of Win2k3 server with 2 unactivated licenses as well), so I borrowed a copy of 10.3 Jaguar that was supposed to have iLife on it.
Well, a little background... I recently installed OS X 10.4 with a PPC DVD w/o iLife since my MOL partition was slow, and unresponsive. I needed a truly functional version of OS X to use with the people I provide tech support to, so I opted to just go ahead and repartition my drive and have a 12gb OS X install on my system.
The installation was mucked up by my screen defaulting to 256 color, of which it only decided to disp[lay 3 of (white, black and static). I did the installation blind, and eventually got it installed. Then, the display worked.
Everything was going fine until I booted back into my OS X installation only to find that the display had gone back to 256 color (again, mostly static/white/black). So, with several mac users assisting me, we tried to fix the display.. the ultimate idea was, "Just reinstall Jaguar, and then do an update."
Ok, sounds simple enough.. being a former windows user, I'm used to reinstalls, and there's nothing I'm afraid of losing on the mac partition, so lets do it.
Insert Jaguar CD... hit c to boot CD-ROM...
nothing.
Ok. Maybe the CD is dirty.
Clean CD. Insert Jaguar CD... hit c to boot CD-ROM...
nothing.
After 30 minutes of trying different things to boot the CD, finally we went back to plan A.. fix the current install, install iLife afterward. After numerous attempts of copying over display settings from other Macs in the office, and apple-option-p-r, apple-option-n-v... I managed to get the OS to update (the screen was that hard to read... couldn't find the updater). After the update, it finally fixed the display, and everything worked.
Then.. iLife. Unfortunatly, the copy of iLife we had was for Mactel, and the Jaguar disk only had iMovie.. not garageband.
Frustration building, we just ripped GarageBand off of one of the macs in the office, and after some tinkering we were able to get it to work.
After 3 hours, we finally got Mac OS X, to work on an iBook.
In retrospect, I can laugh.. though at the time I was cursing Mac for not wanting to install on an Apple PC.