Shoving Tiger in again
15:49 Sunday 16 Dec 07
So for one reason and another I’m currently reinstalling Tiger on the mini. I’ve said I might before and a couple of events this morning convinced me that it was the right thing to do. After 30 mins of “Why the hell won’t it reinstall??” I realised that it wanted the Mini install CD’s, not the laptop. It would have been ever so helpful if I’d got more than “You cannot install…” – if the system knows, the Apple coder who wrote the checking code knows then hey, tell the damn user.
So that’s work plans down for the day. I had planned for less (Tiger Woods on PS3, Wipeout Pulse on PSP) but this was not in the plan. Still, if I’m going to do it, Sunday is best.
(Mini – How to eject CD – hold mouse button and f12 and X while restarting. You only need 1, I didn’t want to try 3 times)
Update: It’s taken longer than an XP install. I’m really glad I had the MyBook – switching the drive to the mac from the PC is soooo easy – and it was otherwise uneventful. We shall see how stable it is now.
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you should only need to hold down the mouse button at startup to eject the cd. I have never heard of the f12 x key combo malarkey.
:)
16:44 Sunday 16 Dec 07