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Member #666 · 2008-02-09 → 2008-02-20
#977 by Dispatches #2,392 by Author Reads #2,061 by Thread Reach Member #666 NVIDIA GeForce AHCI / SATA AMD OSx86

@CupofDice

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (4,057 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 118,823 historical readers.

Dispatches 8 Ranked #977 of 6,691
Author Reads 4,057 Ranked #2,392 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 118,823 Ranked #2,061 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 4,057 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #666 Joined 2008-02-09
Active Window 2008 2008-02-09 → 2008-02-20
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#977 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #2,392 of 3,454 by Author Readership (4,057 reads across 1 dossiers) · #2,061 by Thread Reach (118,823 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #666 · Joined 2008-02-09
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (3) · AHCI / SATA (2) · AMD OSx86 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
8 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @CupofDice (1)

4,057 cumulative reads on threads started by @CupofDice

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Creating Partition Map error
Okay, months ago I tried installing tubgirl, but it timed out on the "creating partition map" part. So now I am trying zephyroth 10.5.1, and I get the same error. I tried zephyroth 10.5.2, but I get "still waiting for root device" errors.…
Leopard 10.54,057 reads
2008-02-20 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (7)

Direct links into threads where @CupofDice contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Okay, my first question can be ignored. I read at insanely mac that those 10 files are par files to recover broken rar archives. Still need an answer to my second question. Thanks for any help.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“First, all thanks to zephyroth for giving us amd users a chance. Okay, just got finished reading through all twenty bloody six pages, and am downloading off of my at&t usenet account at a steady 134 kb on my slow dsl connection (should be d…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Beginners: Ask here first
“I just discovered with the help of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=1cd5d0dd2b46b95f0aad4a218cb27253&t=684420 that I can mount the hfs side of the tubgirl dvd in linux with hfsplus. I thought that was only for reading mac drives, bu…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-10
37,386 dossier reads
Beginners: Ask here first
“Thanks for responding. When I tried tubgirl months ago, I did it without changing the disc/iso. I got past the .plist errors by playing with the boot flags. I was able to see my HD, and I was able to wipe off my Vista install (or maybe I ju…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-10
37,386 dossier reads
Beginners: Ask here first
“I tried installing tubgirl months ago, but couldn't get anywhere with it. It saw my harddrive, but couldn't write to it, though it removed vista. Anyway I am trying zephyroth's leo since it seems the right one for my machine. Specs- HP Pavi…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-10
37,386 dossier reads
Creating Partition Map error
“(Posted this at insanelymac) Okay I just came across a post that said diskpart is a windows program. For some reason I thought it was a mac program, and so I didn't use the setting. Never used it before. What he says is a bit weird though. …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-20
4,057 dossier reads
nForce5 and SATA Write
“Crencom- Great question. I am on linux and I have XP in virtualbox. I used transmac, and was able to see my tubgirl (I am now trying zephyroth's leo, so tubgirl no longer matters) disc just fine, but of course I couldn't use those commands …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-09
3,174 dossier reads