@abtabt:
Thanks for the follow-up, I do appreciate your help . . . so far as it goes I have not been a "handy man" with computers . . . it's only been the last 1.5 years of messing around with Linux that I have started to "look under the hood" in terms of software, hardware is another story . . . . We'll see how it goes, without FW ports any back-up is now going to be very slow . . . and is it the HD that is starting to go, or is it motherboard, so far even on the Apple forums no one was able to point me in a direction as far as testing goes beyond Apple HD Test . . . which shows everything as OK . . . .
Still looking to see if there is some way to repair the software or as the title asks, a way to analyze KPs on the Xu/Lu system . . . it keeps showing the Crash Report error window . . . have yet to be able to run any tests or find a utility to repair the disk like there is in Wheezy . . . but, internet is working and so I can do updates . . . I'm still trying to avoid the 3-4 hour reinstall process since there probably is some physical hardware impending doom in the near or medium short term future . . . . I'm just trying to keep what is going, going, for as long as the computer is working; maybe I'll try to burn an install CD, but what would be the difference between the CD and the DVD as far as installing the system goes? Still not sure why the CD drive seems to work in OSX, but not in Linux?? Is Linux more the "early warning" canary in the mineshaft than OSX?? : = )))
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