Wesley's Tool-Box

Due to personal circumstances, The Toon-Box series will be on a hiatus for now. I hope to come back soon.

It just came out of the printing shop. I'm finally graduating. And I thought I'd never make through it.

The forums were virtually unused, and I decided to take it off.

This morning saw Apple announcing the first official Macintosh computers with Intel CPU such as the MacBook Pro. These machines come with OS X 10.4.4 for Intel, and Apple updated the PPC version of OS X to the same version. I downloaded the update and ran it... and the system wouldn't boot anymore.

The keyboard commands to force booting to the optical drive refused to work, so I had to take the Mac mini apart, physically remove the hard disk, and force it to boot from the OS X install DVD. After that, I set the boot drive to the optical drive, turned the system off, reassembled it back to the way it was, and started installing OS X 10.4 from scratch. Using the archive-and-install option, the old installation was saved for later recovery of data.

I've tried updating the existing OS X to the more or less 'newer' 'beta' version of 10.4.3, the 8F1111 build. The upgrade process reset the server settings so I had to restore the correct setting I've set up for this system. As a result the server has either been not up, or working weirdly for about an hour.