Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #3,671 · 2008-12-06 → 2008-12-11
#796 by Dispatches #1,130 by Author Reads #2,753 by Thread Reach Member #3,671 AMD OSx86

@jefflo

InfiniteMac community contributor with 10 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (10,072 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 55,271 historical readers.

Dispatches 10 Ranked #796 of 6,691
Author Reads 10,072 Ranked #1,130 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 55,271 Ranked #2,753 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 10,072 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #3,671 Joined 2008-12-06
Active Window 2008 2008-12-06 → 2008-12-11
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Here's a component list: · CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ · Motherboard: DFI LANParty UT NF4 Ultra-D · VGA: Sapphire ATI X800 Pro · Memory: 2 GB RAM - too lazy to find out what it is · 3 250 GB WD SATA Hard Drives
Archive Standing
#796 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #1,130 of 3,454 by Author Readership (10,072 reads across 1 dossiers) · #2,753 by Thread Reach (55,271 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #3,671 · Joined 2008-12-06
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
8 (80%)
General
2 (20%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @jefflo (1)

10,072 cumulative reads on threads started by @jefflo

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Newbie - Installation Problems
Hello! I've waited a while for the OSx86 project to develop and thought it'd be nice to try my hand at installing OSX to my system. Here's a component list: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Motherboard: DFI LANParty UT NF4 Ultra-D VGA: Sapphire…
Leopard 10.510,072 reads
2008-12-06 · 8 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (8)

Direct links into threads where @jefflo contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
What shows your Avatar
“My avatar's a pie chart of music I've listened to in the past month.”
General2008-12-06
19,019 dossier reads
Playing unauthorized music and video's on itunes
“I looked around and this seemed promising. I haven't tried it out, but hey, more power to you! boing boing.net/2004/03/26/dvd-jon-on-vlc-and-a.html all streaming-media.com/streaming-media-faq/faq-playing-DRM-protected-m4p-AAC-Apple-iTunes-f…”
Leopard 10.52008-12-06
12,073 dossier reads
Newbie - Installation Problems
“I reburnt all my distros at 2.4x and verified the disks. I tried reinstalling with iATKOS v4a (burnt at 2.4x, verified, same md5 checksum) but I got a different error this time - something to do with not being able to find the mount point &…”
Leopard 10.52008-12-11
10,072 dossier reads
Newbie - Installation Problems
“I tried Leo4all v.4 today. It failed. However, it failed with the same error as the message I received while trying to install iDeneb v1.3: "Folder Manager is being asked to create a folder (asav) while running as uid0." What does this mean…”
Leopard 10.52008-12-08
10,072 dossier reads
Newbie - Installation Problems
“I'm back from another failed installation This was with the iDeneb v1.3 release. So here are the pictures: - the patches I applied (that's all I did) - the point at which the install froze - error message - error log pt. 1 - error log pt. 2…”
Leopard 10.52008-12-06
10,072 dossier reads
Newbie - Installation Problems
“Thank you for your quick response. Sorry for the ambiguity! The DVD drive is an IDE. I'm able to boot into the DVD and get the install running. The problem is that the install won't complete. It hangs and outputs an error log in the console…”
Leopard 10.52008-12-06
10,072 dossier reads
First websites you visit when you fire up your web browser
“My home page is nowd othis.com. Helps me get the work done. Then it's probably Gmail.”
General2008-12-06
7,567 dossier reads
Install never finishes! (10.5.2 Rev.1)
“Hi - Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I was wondering if anyone here fixed the 'Folder Manager' problem. Thanks!”
Leopard 10.52008-12-09
6,540 dossier reads