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• I need help with v. 10.0.03
  2004-01-26 11:24:45  hcenac1 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I found a disk in my computer desk for OS X v. 10.0.03 from 2001. I installed it fine, but a lot of the programs I use often only have downloads for 10.2 or higher or 9.1 and lower. Classic environment freezes my computer, and I want to either uninstall or update the OS X version I have without spending a lot of money. What can I do? Also, where can I find administrator information? Because I can't seem to uninstall OS X v. 10.0.03 without it. Help!

• Upgrade Help.
  2003-10-27 08:54:56  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  is there a way to upgrade from 9.2 to os x without paying mucho $$$??
  
  Broke student w/ a g3 powerbook 500 mhz laptop, running os 9.2. looking to jump onto jaguar or panther and not lose my existing info.
  
  I do not have a method of copying ot ripping anything off my machine except by e-mailing it to my yahoo. DVD/CD drive with no writeable cpabilities...
  
  What can I do??
  on_any_sunday @ Yahoo dot com needs help!!
  
  Sunday

• randy munden
  2003-08-31 13:24:23  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
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• Apple Laptop Keyboards Unsuitable for Unix Users
  2002-09-18 01:55:45  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  

  I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.
  
  

  Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.
  
  

  Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.
  
  

  There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are
  horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.
  
  

  Apple is (currently) ignoring Unix users! This is not merely speculation on my part. In an on-going email exchange I am having with an Apple employee (whom I won't name) in their marketing department, the Apple marketing person directly stated to me that Apple was catering to their historic Mac customers, and is purposely ignoring the Unix market. He also claimed that Apple would soon start paying more attention to the Unix market. I won't hold my breath. Apple has been ignoring Unix users for more than 10 years. I expect that trend to continue. (Also note that my Apple contact indicated that Macs would never ship with a 3-button mouse, even though Apple intended to port almost all X-window software and deliver it either on a CD/DVD or installed directly on each Mac's hard drive. How Unix friendly is a 1-button mouse with X programs that often require 3 buttons?)
  
  

  Apple has now lost two opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.
  

• Apple Laptop Keyboards Unsuitable for Unix Users
  2003-04-18 17:53:25  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I am in total agreement. The Apple keyboards are terrible with regard to ergonomics of the modifer keys such as the control key.
  
  So, does anyone have a solution in the form of a replacement keyboard? If so please send me a clue, at <sv_commuter@yahoo.com>.
  
  Thanks!
  

• It's here - now what? No Backup System...
  2001-10-15 07:38:44  sneex [Reply | View]
  
  
  Hi All :-)
  
  Below is an example of how to *really* backup a Mac OS X system. The normal Unix tools which come internal to OSX *do not* work - try them if you don't believe me. They don't work simply because Apple *forgot* to make them HFS+ and MacOS 9 *fork* aware. Which is not a good thing if you still use Mac OS 9x applications...
  
  Based upon the work of others - I just want credit for using their work in a more portable manner (the other methods required that you had more than one HD inside your system - this is somewhat difficult if the system is an OSX Laptop. Hence why I had to modify the standard methods.) :)
  
  HTH;
  -Sx- :]
  
  # The method I am using -
  # WARNING - You may need to fix formatting errors caused by this posting...
  
  # I am on a G4 laptop, so make sure we
  # have mounting points...
  
  /usr/bin/hdiutil eject disk1
  /usr/bin/hdiutil eject disk2
  
  
  # Make a place to backup to...
  # Optionally you want to access
  # something like a Firewire drv...
  /usr/bin/sudo /bin/mkdir /BackUps
  /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown sneex /BackUps
  /usr/bin/hdiutil create -megabytes 1000 /BackUps/backupImage.dmg
  /usr/bin/hdid -nomount /BackUps/backupImage.dmg
  /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/newfs_hfs -v myBackupDir /dev/disk1
  /usr/bin/hdiutil eject disk1
  /usr/bin/hdid /BackUps/backupImage.dmg
  
  # You will need hsfpax from the iTools site...
  /usr/bin/hfspax -r -w -v -Y -Z /Users/sneex /Volumes/myBackupDir
  
  clear
  echo Done...
  exit
  
  
  Notes & Typical Uses (much from the hfspax README doc(s)):
  
  The following examples illustrate some common ways in which you can use hfspax
  from a command shell (Terminal). In each command, we include the v option which
  makes hfspax's output verbose. If you do not wish to see all the files listed
  in detail, omit the v character from the commands given below.
  
  Backing up
  To create an archive of the folder thisfolder under the name thisfolder.pax,
  type in the command
  
  hfspax -wv -f thisfolder.pax -x cpio thisfolder
  
  If thisfolder is not in the current path, you can either change your working
  directory with a command like
  
  cd /Users/Documents/
  
  and then use the above command, or you can use a command like
  
  hfspax -wv -f thisfolder.pax -x cpio /Users/Documents/thisfolder
  
  The effect of these differs significantly when you come to unpack the archive:
  if you used cd to change directory, the unpacked archive will be reconstructed
  relative to your current working directory. If you used the full path name in
  the command as given immediately above, then the old directory will be
  completely reconstructed in its original location. It is important that you
  appreciate this fundamental difference: when unpacking, hfspax (like pax) will
  restore files to the path shown when you list the contents of the archive,
  relative to the current working directory (in the command shell).
  
  Listing archive contents
  To list the contents of the archive thisfolder.pax, type in the command
  hfspax -v -f thisfolder.pax
  
  Restoring
  To restore the files contained in the archive thisfolder.pax to their original
  locations, type in the command
  
  hfspax -rv -f thisfolder.pax
  
  Note how you can control whether the original directory is reconstructed,
  according to how you specify its original path name (see above).
  
  Volume backup
  To make a full backup of your active Mac OS X volume, you will need to create a
  series of pax archives to cover each of the folders. If you do not have
  Mac OS 9.x on the same volume, you can achieve this using the following commands
  (which assume that you are creating the archives at the top level of another
  volume called backvol):
  
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/Applications.pax -x cpio Applications
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/Library.pax -x cpio Library
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/Network.pax -x cpio Network
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/System.pax -x cpio System
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/Users.pax -x cpio Users
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/bin.pax -x cpio bin
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/private.pax -x cpio private
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/sbin.pax -x cpio sbin
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/usr.pax -x cpio usr
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/mach.pax -x cpio mach*
  
  Note how you access the other volume through its named entry in the /Volumes
  path: this is the standard UNIX way of accessing volumes other than the root
  (which appears at /). The final command backs up the Mach kernel files, which
  remain at the root level of the startup volume. You may also need to run the
  following line if you have the developer tools installed:
  
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/Developer.pax -x cpio Developer
  
  You may find it useful to back up the /dev folder. However, this may not be
  useful, or it may result in many errors, because of its special nature. If you
  do want to try backing it up, use something like:
  
  hfspax -wv -f /Volumes/backvol/dev.pax -x cpio dev
  
  Volume restore
  To restore a totally trashed Mac OS X startup volume, restart from another
  Mac OS X volume, initialise the disk, and allow the Mac OS X Install CD-ROM to
  install OS X 10.x. Then, make sure that hfspax is installed on the
  reconstruction disk, restart from it, and simply restore each of the .pax
  backups using a command like
  
  hfspax -rv -f /Volumes/backvol/Applications.pax
  
  Note that you have to do this from the disk to which you are restoring, or each
  archive will replace the files on the active or 'root' Mac OS X disk. You can
  work around this by creating the archives from within each directory, but this
  starts to get fairly complex. You can also use this sequence of commands to
  create a mirror of your Mac OS X startup volume on another hard disk, although
  you will need to recreate some links at the root level.
  
  Moving to a new Mac
  When you need to move all your work from one Mac to another, the easiest thing
  to do is a full backup (see above) onto an external disk, such as a FireWire
  hard disk. Put all the pax files there, and move the disk over to your new
  Mac. You will then want to select which files you want to install: a simple way
  of doing this is to cd to your Documents folder
  
  cd ~/Documents
  
  and then unpack each archive in turn into that location, using commands
  of the form
  
  sudo hfspax -rv -f /Volumes/backvol/Applications.pax
  
  (Note the use of sudo, see below.) You can then change the owner of folders
  as necessary, using something like
  
  sudo chown -R mynewusername Applications
  
  as appropriate. Then using the Finder (recall that command line cp will not
  preserve resource forks), drag the applications, folders, etc. into their
  new locations .
  
  Working incrementally
  You can use hfspax's command options to perform incremental backups and restore
  incrementally. To create an archive with just files modified since
  year 2001 month 08 date 10 hour 07 minutes 30, use
  
  hfspax -wv -f archive.pax -x cpio -T 0108100730/m foldertoarchive
  
  When you want to append those same files to the existing archive called
  archive.pax, use the -a option thus:
  
  hfspax -wv -a -f archive.pax -x cpio -T 0108100730/m foldertoarchive
  
  You can also use the -T option with a date given in the above format
  (yymmddhhmm, for details see the man page) to select those files to
  unpack with hfspax -r. If you want to unpack files into existing folders,
  then you should use the -k option, or hfspax will happily trash the existing
  files for you, and replace them with those it unpacks. You can combine the
  -k and -T (and other options) to produce quite powerful and selective commands,
  such as
  
  hfspax -rv -f archive.pax -k -T 0108100730/m
  
  which will unpack only those files modified after the given date from
  archive.pax, into the current working folder, but will not over-write
  existing files.
  
  sudo or su
  Mac OS X has many features of Unix, including strict limitations on privileges
  for users. Depending on whether the current user has admin powers, and the
  permissions set for folders and files, you may need to assume additional powers
  as a 'super user' before you can read or write them. Thus, you may find that you
  need to preface any or all of the above commands with the sudo command. You can
  also become the super-user ('root') with the su command. You should be extremely
  cautious about doing so, because you can rapidly cause all sorts of problems and
  damage unless you really – really – know what you are doing. If you do not know
  how to use sudo, then you should read the relevant section of a good Unix guide,
  and its man pages (man sudo).
  
  File naming: an important issue
  Mac OS X using an HFS+ volume has to cope with both Mac OS 9 and Unix file naming
  conventions. When an operating system refers to a file using its full path name
  (as hfspax has to do), it uses a separator character between each element in the
  full path name. For instance,
  
  /Users/me/Documents/test.rtf
  
  specifies the file test.rtf in the path /Users/me/Documents. Unix uses the '/'
  character as its separator, whilst Mac OS 9 uses the ':' character, e.g.
  
  HacHardDisk:Users:me:Documents:test.rtf
  
  If you create or keep files that include a separator in their name, this will
  confuse tools such as pax, as the name will be seen to contain part of the
  pathname as well. In OS X, this can happen if you use '/' or ':' characters
  in file names. This will cause hfspax to break, and its behaviour will then
  be unpredictable, and it will corrupt files. Currently, we do not know of a
  workaround to help this unfortunate situation.
  

• OS 10.1? Yes!
  2001-10-13 15:39:12  mcamille [Reply | View]
  
  
  I have been an OS X user since the beta release. I have an older iMac (333) with 256MB ram and I recently bought a G4 Powerbook (400) with 384 MB ram. I have been pleased with OS X since the official release, more pleased as it was revised and it matured.
  
  As a recent (2 1/2 years only) Mac user and against the framework of extensive Windows and Unix experience, I can say that OS X won me over because of its stability, its Unix core, and Apple's artful GUI design.
  
  I have never had trouble loading OS X , a fact best seen against my migration history: OS 8.6 -->OS 9-->OS 10 beta-->OS 10.xx-->OS 10.1. I did not create separate partitions. I just overwrote the old and kept going!
  
  Yes, Classic has been too slow to load, no doubt about it. But that's a relatively minor inconvenience. Furthermore, I must add that my Office 98 apps have been fine against all these changes. This is important to me as I use Office 2000 at work and need to be able to move files around with no glitches between my Windows Office apps and my Mac Office apps.
  
  Now why not ask me how much trouble I had loading NT 4.O -- both server and work station--when I needed to load those?
  
  In fairness, Windows 2000 Professional is fairly easy to get up and running. And I would rate Win2000 Pro and OS X about the same in regards to ease of upgrading from their respective ancestors.
  
  My only regret is that I must continue to use Office 98 in classic. I really like Office 98 and consider it a better suite than its Windows equivalent (I don't have a need for Access). And I think the Office for X is going to be too pricey. I will add here that I also just bought Appleworks 6.1, upgraded it for OS X and am absolutely delighted that it reads and saves Word and Excel files in Windows format. I don't have too much experience with the file conversions yet, but so far I am very pleased.
  
  Complaints: only that Apple doesn't bundle with every new Mac and OS X CD a USB to serial conversion cable and the software to trick these USB machines into thinking they have serial com ports. I have not yet figured out how I am going to use my PowerBook to configure Cisco routers and switches via their console ports. But then again, that's not a problem most Mac users are faced with.
  
  
• OS 10.1? Yes!
  2005-03-01 10:31:26  stanmajor [Reply | View]
  
  
  Interesting as I have the same Imac (333) with 288MB but have been put off by the "experts" who say without this and that I will crash and burn the minute I slide the OSX disc into my tray.
  currently running OS 9.2.1.
  any thoughts?

• 10.1 Fixed Classic
  2001-10-04 10:37:04  stableos [Reply | View]
  
  
  I couldn't get classic mode to start within OS X even after all of the updates to it and OS 9. Once 9.2.1 and 10.1 were installed, not only was OS X faster, classic mode worked like a charm.

• Dev Tools back at ADC
  2001-10-03 13:08:24  brickman [Reply | View]
  
  
  Just after I post that, the Dev Tools for 10.1 are available at ADC. I now stand corrected by myself.

• Dev Tools Die
  2001-10-02 16:08:27  brickman [Reply | View]
  
  
  One thing O'Reilly reads would most likely want to know is that the upgrade kills your installed Dev Tools.
  
  I was able to reinstall the Dev Tools from ADC (still the old version), but I understand Apple has a new set they send out with the $19 upgrade (and I assume the $129 full version).
  
  I have not fully tested the reinstalled Dev Tools too thoroughly, but it did compile a simple C++ and simple Java app.

• Is your wallstreet playing dvd's
  2001-10-02 13:46:22  zarembo [Reply | View]
  
  
  Someone told me that DVD hardware is not supported in OS 10.1 Do you know if this is true? If so, have your heard whether Apple intends to support our DVD hardware pcmcia cards? Thanks.
  
  
• Is your wallstreet playing dvd's
  2001-10-04 10:41:55  stableos [Reply | View]
  
  
  The Matrix was beautiful playing natively in OS X. (Cube with DVD)

• 9.2.1 Only Upgrades 9.1 or Later
  2001-09-29 10:16:30  Derrick Story | [Reply | View]
  
  
  I want to clarify that the 9.2.1 CD included in the 10.1 upgrade package will only update Classic system 9.1 or later. This shouldn't be an issue if you've been using the standard Mac OS X install packages. But if you wanted to use the 9.2.1 CD to update other Macs at home, remember that they have to be 9.1 or later.
• Great Article...
  2001-10-08 19:23:23  tjcrebs [Reply | View]
  
  
  Derrick,
  
  I used your Disaster-Free articles to install 10.1 on my Pismo. a few problems I encountered were:
  
  1) getting DVD to run on my Pismo (Firewire PowerBook). DVD worked fine until I upgraded 9.1-Classic to 9.2.1--then the dreaded "Not configured error"--my fix was to reinstall OS-X-10.1. Runs fine now.
  
  2) I recommend each time you install 9.2.1 or your backed up 9.1 System--restart from each OS-9 System after each installation to handle the networking and queries. I apparently crashed a couple OSX-10.1installations because I didn't .
  
  3) Took me 4 installs to get OSX-10.1 to work great. Yup, I learn best from FUs.
  
  Thanx again for the fine "Disaster-Free" articles.
  
  Regards,
  T. J. Crebs
  Lakewood, CO USA
  
  P.S. AOL 16B Beta works great undr 10.1.

• Disaster-Free upgrade to OS 10.1
  2001-09-29 01:45:55  maximus [Reply | View]
  
  
  Hi there,
  
  just wanted to add that the upgrade has been extremely successful even with a 'bubble' machine: PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, no USB, no FireWire. Originally a 266 MHz upgraded to 466MHz with Newer Technology, 192 MB memory.
  
  Not even a single glitch! Apple really did a great job. Moreover, if you are into Unix you are going to love even more your Mac. I have installed XFree86 with XDarwin rootless and to me it is now like having a Unix portable workstation! With the GNU compiler 2.95.2 I installed Unix applications without any effort.
  A truly traditional Apple drooling experience.
  
  Thanks Apple,
  
  forever yours!
• randy munden
  2003-08-31 13:24:39  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  loves his apple hes got apple titanium and a imac ones wireless and the other is hard wires i will never go back to ibm computers RANDY MUNDEN MUNDEN MUNDEN MUNDEN RANDY RANDY RANDY RANDY MY