8 months is absolutely ridiculous and I hope that it shows others the “support” their company offers before buying something that with an os upgrade becomes unusable.
(EYETV took like 3 weeks to update!!!)

maybe u can use ui scripting to hide the window

Try to run the Install Disk again, but instead of doing the Install, open Startup Disk and see if the drive w/ Leopard is there, then select it. It may just be the new OS is not mounted properly, thus producing the Folder w/ the question mark at startup.

Steve

found ur site and did as u instructed but still no luck. it seems that after the apple symbol and chime and the spinning icon it turns into a “no-entry” sign. so even after leaving it for ages nothing.

so now i have an expensive white piece of plastic which turns on to show me a question mark folder!! a dvd with no where to go, and an almost empty, bar the copy of leopard external hd. …. bargain.

help

My iBook G4 is in German language, how can i change it to English language.

regards.

http://www.macosx-forum.com/?p=5

Thanks for you help steve!

Out of curiosity, do you know anything about photographing food? That is my next challenge….

easy as pie. I think you’ll have to re-do this after every reboot, unfortunately.

cuz when i type in for example “sbagen focus-10-a.sbg ” this came out:

Set audio output buffer size failed, status = 1852797029

Really enjoyed that article,tell me do you have any other blogs? Why not come and write for me I have a wicked article site you could submit article for?…

all i had to do was format my external to be Mac Extended

cheers for this article! =)

Leotard: I installed from version 10.3.9 straight to Leopard and it worked fine, all my files are still there too…

Thanks 4 this guide blue!

What I noticed is that your screen grab shows a logo of a DVD on your installer window and mine shows and external HD logo. How did you get your Mac to recognize your external HD as a DVD?

Thanks

MacTipper
My Mac-Tipping Blog

The steps are listed above in the post. After you are finished writing the document, save it. Then follow the steps in blue above.

Can you write out the steps for me from the very beginning - ex. Pages - File - New - Blank document - I write my text - and help me out from there. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. I am new to Mac and have always used pc. I bought the mac recently because i love the graphics, photo quality, ext. Thank you

thanks

In Tiger, you had to hit Command Return to select the top hit in Spotlight. It’s definitely more useful in Leopard.

Cheers
Martin

Really neat idea. In System Preferences, just add this to your login items, so you don’t have to click on anything at all. I dunno if this still works in Leopard (still faithfully running Tiger), although I don’t see any reason for Apple getting rid of this great idea

SOLUTION!:

If you get the “image needs to be scanned” error, double click .dmg to mount it.

But then you will notice if you have the .dmg selected as source it will give the resouce busy error!

When you mount the DMG, the mounted disk will show just under the DMG in the list, but as you may have noticed it doesnt let you drag this to the source box?

BUT it if you Ctrl click/right click on it and choose set as source, it works!

Steve

Here is the script that runs on every shutdown (or restart):

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf /Users/user.bak
mv /Users/user Users/user/bak
tar -C /Users -xf /Users/user.tar

This script is for a default user named “user.” You have to make a “user.tar” file of your pristine directory there in order this to work (tar cfp /Users/user.tar /Users/user). Be sure permissions are chmod 700 and owned by root for this script. Lastly, create a shutdown script in your /Library/StartupItems folder which will activate the above script on Shutdown, be sure permissions are correct for this and you’re done!

If you’re not comfortable with the Unix command line and shell scripting, alternatively you can buy a commercial product that does the same thing as the scripts (and much more): It is called Deep Freeze - get it here:

http://www.faronics.com/html/DFMac.asp

I’m not sure why folks above are concerned about users changing the password. They have to know the current password before they can change it right? So it shouldn’t be a problem - just don’t tell anyone the default user password. We have an admin account on our machines that we give to certain individuals who need to be able to install software, etc. Mike Bombich’s Netrestore is awesome for managing Mac labs though he needs to update it for Leopard (still works with Leopard but with some limitations). And with Apple Remote Desktop you can really have nice control of your Mac labs!

Hope this helps some of my fellow Macintosh Lab managers out there!

Blessings,

Steve

hoodia diet patch 7…

Your idea will work. But I would turn it around, clone Tiger to the external and use that as a backup in case the Leopard Install on the Internal isn’t to your liking. Then you can still use both OS.

Why do you want to do this?

Steve Blue

“I suddenly started wondering whether more useful than having the install disk on an external drive would be having a bootable version of Leopard on an external drive?”

I made a disk image as you said, and then had the same idea as Javier. Is it possible to install Leopard from the .dmg onto a partition on a FireWire external HD, and run it as an additional system to Tiger (which would be on internal HD) by booting between OS’s. Could I put Leopard onto a 50G partition on my external HD, and add and delete programs, as I can in Tiger on my internal HD? In other words, use it like a 2nd internal HD with a different OS? By this I don’t mean a “bootable clone” (as in SuperDuper), as I don’t beleive you can add data to the clone? Hope this makes sense.

I don’t experience this same problem.

Steve

Really enjoyed that article,tell me do you have any other blogs? Why not come and write for me I have a wicked article site you could submit article for?…

the new macbook air of apple is as great as this one…….

Honestly, this would be a better question for the Sbagen mailing list.

Sorry,
Steve

“Set audio output buffer size failed, status = 1852797029″

Any ideas? It should be fine with Leopard and Intel Macs, right? UNIX is UNIX, right?

Photoshop is more appropriate for this kind of Image Handling. If you change the resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop, it will automatically calculate the Image Size. You must sacrifice the image dimensions and make it a smaller image to get a higher DPI. It works on the same ratio. So if you are going from 72dpi to 300dpi, this is a 4.16X magnification in resolution. The image size would then need to be divided by this same amount. So, if the width of the image was 3,692 pixels, The new width would become 887.5 pixels. This will scale the image without distortion.

To scale from 72dpi to 300dpi without sacrificing image size uses a process called Vectorization. You must actually create new pixels where there were none before. This is a complex process. I do not know much about this…

I know NOTHING about Core Animation, but I was wondering if there’s any way to convert a brief quicktime video into a Quartz Composition. I’m guessing it’s a NO.

Thanks.

No. Boot Camp is to be used exclusively for the partitioning and Install of Windows on a Mac.

The advantage in having a Bootable Install is mainly for diagnostic and the obvious Install of OS X. It is fastest to install OS X over a Firewire 800 connection. Firewire 400 is faster than off the DVD. This is mainly for Macs with a broken Combo or Superdrive. Or perhaps you backed up the install disk to a DMG. This would mean you cannot burn it back to a standard DVD because of the 4.37GB restriction.

A Bootable OS could run alongside the Bootable Install on a properly partitioned Hard Drive. The advantage here would be the ability to continue work in Applications in the case of a Hard Drive failure in the Internal HD. Making Scheduled Backups with SuperDuper! is great for this purpose.

Firstly, I too was getting various combinations of errors (2 and 16)when trying to restore. I finally found that if I mounted the image by CTRL-clicking the icon and choosing “Mount It” from the bottom of the menu, I could then restore in Disk Utility without a problem.

Secondly, I suddenly started wondering whether more useful than having the install disk on an external drive would be having a bootable version of Leopard on an external drive? Is there something I’m missing here? What’s the advantage of having a bootable install disk rather than a bootable OS?

Thanks in advance.

I also noticed a differnece in icons, in your disk utility you had the hard drive icon, mine i have the orange fire wire icon for external hard drives, i think that it wont let me boot b/c it’s not configured to be a bootable hard drive

I’ve read that ejecting the External HDD, and then re-mounting it would fix the error. But after a few dozen tries it seems it does not. More Googleing.

I have created a .dmg file from the Install DVD (by choosing ‘read/write’ from the file-type menu). I have created partitions on my firewire drive, with all of the parameters you suggest in the article (GUID, 10GB, name=”Mac OS X Install DVD”).

PROBLEM: Upon restoring from the .dmg to the ‘Install’ partition, I am receiving error 16 (”Resource is busy.”)

Attempted solution: Re-doing everything except enabling the extra options for creating the .dmg file (this time I used ‘entire device’).

PROBLEM: error (2): No such file or directory. Tried again, error (16): (”Resource is busy.”)

Other notes: Each time, I could not drag the destination partition from the desktop into the restore ‘Destination’ field. I had to drag it from the list on the left column of Disk Utility.

Any solutions?

Thanks!