I personally use MainMenu from MacUpdate as it resides in my menu bar and I can assign quick batch tasks to it as well as perform a lot of other useful features. MainMenu -> Finder -> Show Invisibles. Comes in very handy to have it be that quick. Of course there are other ways to show hidden files but this is just preference.

Also, for navigating the to Installation folder of the Install DVD you could just launch a Finder window then use the Go menu: Go -> Go To Folder (or [shift]+[apple/cmd]+[G]) then type in:
/Volumes/iPC 10.5.6 Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/

@nfoav8or
Actually Ill have to take a look at this. I know I recommend the Dashboard Widget but to tell the truth that and the calculator the only Widgets I use. Im not a real big fan of the Dashboard.

And yet another useful piece of information. ;)

nothing but the best ;) I'm not here to shortchange anyone :-B

Are you kidding bring on. Ill be truthful. Im trying to help here:

10% because I received a great deal of help getting my machine running.
90% because Im using it as a means to learn as much as possible.

huh? my last post wasn't implying that anyone else is giving bad advice or trying to shortchange anyone.

Hell, I'm glad we've got people like you here willing to actually give back some of the knowledge you've gained over the years.

I found that by being active in the forums keeps your eyes open to the new methods and various things out there that the x86ers have created as work-arounds for OS X.

EDIT: it also helps keep you on your toes to make sure your system is always supported. knowing the basics is good for some but not enough for the rest of us who keep coming back. hence -> :-B

Never thought you did. I was saying bring on the useful information. ;) I don't want to wave the old Windows philosophy of having 10 ways to do 1 thing but I really want to know those 10 ways... If that made any sense.

Ok now one other problem. I was downloading the iPhone SDK and it was almost done and I got a kernel panic. Was it because of the size of the file? It was 1.57 GB. I also got a kernel panic after installing the audio kext it asked me to restart and it worked fine then when I wanted to just shut it down I got the kernel panic. Any ideas??

no. if you look around the forum at the nForce LAN kexts you'll see that it isn't perfect. I'd recommend going with another LAN pci card (see the wiki for good ideas on which one to get) as you are going to keep having kernel panics due to this. (in my own personal research with this, it is based on spikes in the downloads, but this isn't confirmed yet)

Not really sure why you are getting kernel panics with this. The installer shouldn't have messed with anything except for adding a known working kext. If you wanted to stray from that kext you could always use Taruga's AppleHDA patcher. I could PM you with this stuff if you want.

Thank You lanceomni !!! but...
 

Internet finally works with your nForce Lan Driver.. i have mcp61 onboard lan Realtek RTL8201N and this is the very first time it worked.. However :( i have a problem, while i can surf the internet, i can not access my network, and my network printer. so any help would truly be appreciated.

thanks

btw: when i first installed the driver, time machine didn't work, but that go fixed with a code in terminal:

sudo mv /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist.old


and i've also installed a modifyed IONetworkingFAMILY.kext but still no network.

my specs can be found:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...40614&lang=en#

my system profiler page can be found here:
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/l...7/Picture2.png

i have 10.5.6, AMD, Chameleon Bootloader, 9.5 voodoo

i'm a newbie , sympathy is what i need
 

i have 10.4.10 macdotnub mac on the pc , and have no sound , my motherboard is msi p15 ,with a c-media audio card with the below details ..how can i make sound work .please help
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Sound Devices
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Description: C-Media Rear Panel Audio
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_434D&DEV_4980&SUBSYS_98801019& REV_0900
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: cmudax.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0009 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Debug
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
Date and Size: 6/20/2005 14:09:46, 1425152 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: C-Media Electronics Inc.
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0xF5F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 192000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 17, 16
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 17, 16
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX™ 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
I3DL2™ Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
Sensaura™ ZoomFX™: Yes
Registry: OK
Sound Test Result: Not run