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@nateman06
InfiniteMac community contributor with 24 recorded dispatches, 7 lead technical dossiers (35,659 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 75,385 historical readers.
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Joined 2008-05-07
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2008
2008-05-08 → 2008-12-09
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
I am running the GA-EP45-DS3L with 2GB DDR2 OCZ Fatal1ty 1066 Ram · 320GB SATA hard drive and a Samsumg Lightscribe IDE DVDRW. Is there a Distro out there that supports IDE DVD drives? I really want to install! Thanks a lot for any help!
I have a GA-EP45-DS3L (JMicron JMB368) · Intel C2D 7300 · Hitachi 300GB SATA · Samsung IDE DVD · 2GB OCZ DDR2 1066MHz
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- #314 of 6,691 by Dispatches (24 notes) · #298 of 3,454 by Author Readership (35,659 reads across 7 dossiers) · #2,485 by Thread Reach (75,385 cumulative reads)
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- Member #2,074 · Joined 2008-05-07
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- AHCI / SATA (4) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (3) · AMD OSx86 (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @nateman06 (7)
35,659 cumulative reads on threads started by @nateman06
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| What distro supports IDE DVD booting I am running the GA-EP45-DS3L with 2GB DDR2 OCZ Fatal1ty 1066 Ram 320GB SATA hard drive and a Samsumg Lightscribe IDE DVDRW. Is there a Distro out there that supports IDE DVD drives? I really want to install! Thanks a lot for any help! | Leopard 10.5 | 11,694 reads 2008-12-04 · 16 notes |
| Can't Boot Kalyway or Leo4All 10.5.2 Okay. I have a GA-EP45-DS3L MOBO 300GB Hitachi SATA HDD Samsung Lightscribe IDE DVD-RW 2GB 1066MHz DDR2 I cannot boot into either Kalyway or Leo4All. It runs a bunch of lines with JMicronATA and then 5 lines of SAM Multimedia: Read or… | Leopard 10.5 | 5,464 reads 2008-12-06 · 2 notes |
| Install from USB Hard Drive If I restore the Kalyway DVD to an External Hard Drive in Tiger can I install Chameleon from Tiger as well? And then boot from the USB hard drive and install onto another Hard Drive? | Leopard 10.5 | 4,328 reads 2008-12-05 · 6 notes |
| Kalyway 10.5.2 HELP I have a Gateway mt3422 with an Athlon 64 X2 and the specs are at the link below. support.gat eway.com/s/Mobile/2007/Apache/1014552R/1014552Rcl2.shtml I have successfully installed Zephyroth once and then Kalyway but Neither will boot. I… | Leopard 10.5 | 3,949 reads 2008-05-08 · 5 notes |
| Adding PPC to install disk I was wondering if anyone knew how to add the PPC install files back on to an install disk. I got my hands on a free Mac running Tiger on a G4 and I know it will run Leopard. I was just wondering if anyone knew how/had the files needed.… | Leopard 10.5 | 3,836 reads 2008-10-22 · 6 notes |
| Zeph's ASU for AMD I really want to use the ASU from Zeph so that I can be up to speed on all of the updates. I FINALLY go my ethernet to work but don't want to update until I have ASU. NO ONE has it to download anymore! Please send me a link! Thanks | Leopard 10.5 | 3,366 reads 2008-09-03 · 4 notes |
| Help with Audio and Airport Okay, so I got my ethernet working finally, updated to 10.5.4 and now all I need is Audio and WiFi Here is my WiFi: 06:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller… | Leopard 10.5 | 3,022 reads 2008-09-09 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (17)
Direct links into threads where @nateman06 contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Mac OS X 10.5.5 released “After looking, I noticed that it rolled back to defaults and not to 10.5.4. It actually left the 10.5.5 in place but reset all of the system defaults. My system booted right after I did that and it's working nicely now. Thanks for respondin…” | Releases & News | 2008-09-16 29,135 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X 10.5.5 released “...funny, I just booted to 10.5.4 in verbose mode and the same error was there only it kept going and booted?” | Releases & News | 2008-09-16 29,135 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X 10.5.5 released “It stalls at that error and won't advance. I can boot in safe mode. Also, when I ran ASU the first time to install the update, it gave me the grey sreen telling me to restart my computer? So, I used OSx86tools to revert back to 10.5.4 and i…” | Releases & News | 2008-09-16 29,135 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X 10.5.5 released “AAAAHHHH! I just updated to 10.5.5 with ASU and I can only boot up in safe mode. I get an mDNSResponder Warning DNSResponder[41] WARNING: sandbox_init error Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.bsd.dirhelper err=1100Could …” | Releases & News | 2008-09-16 29,135 dossier reads |
| What distro supports IDE DVD booting “thanks for all the help. I actually got it working under iAtkosv5 so I am up and running Vanilla now in 10.5.5 with all software updated. Thanks again!” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-09 11,694 dossier reads |
| What distro supports IDE DVD booting “Thanks a lot for the links. I will check them out and see if I can get it running. I will let you know if I need any more advice. Thanks again everyone.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-08 11,694 dossier reads |
| What distro supports IDE DVD booting “I have a GA-EP45-DS3L (JMicron JMB368) Intel C2D 7300 Hitachi 300GB SATA Samsung IDE DVD 2GB OCZ DDR2 1066MHz I cannot for the life of me get any distro DVD to boot. I set BIOS like they need to be set and still nothing. ANy help would be a…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-08 11,694 dossier reads |
| What distro supports IDE DVD booting “Okay, I switched the IDE drive to slave and still get the "waiting for root device" after a bunch of Jmicron crap. Is there any distro out there that will just boot from an IDE drive?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-05 11,694 dossier reads |
| What distro supports IDE DVD booting “Okay I will try this as soon as I can. I really appreciate all of the help. I am going to try it with Kalyway and Leo4All. I will let you know if I need anything else.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-04 11,694 dossier reads |
| What distro supports IDE DVD booting “I will try that tonight. Do I need to set it as slave on my IDE ribbon or just in BIOS? Also, should it be slave to another DVD drive or Slave to the Hard Drive?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-04 11,694 dossier reads |
| What distro supports IDE DVD booting “No, I am using Kalyway 10.5.2, Leo4All10.5.2 and I think Zeph 10.5.1 and none of them boot. They all say waiting for root device. I have a SATA hard drive but an IDE DVD drive. They won't boot and I have no clue how to patch them with the J…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-04 11,694 dossier reads |
| Weird problem with Apple keyboard & WinXP “my apple keyboard works under Vista and under XP but I had to use a traditional keyboard to install XP on my AMD machine. Iam not sure if XP will recognize a USB keyboard for install purposes. You could just borrow someone's keyboard until …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-22 6,675 dossier reads |
| Install from USB Hard Drive “Well, I have a 160GB laptop hard drive that I put into an external USB case when my laptop died on me. I also have a 50GB IDE Hard drive that I might play around with but my main goal is to get it onto my 300GB SATA to dual boot it with VIs…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-05 4,328 dossier reads |
| Install from USB Hard Drive “Awesome! Thanks for the great advice! I will give it a go tonight after work. I had problems booting from an IDE DVD drive so I hope this will do the trick.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-05 4,328 dossier reads |
| where do I start “The only thing that I can tell you to do is to find a good AMD distro and try it out. If you are working with XP or Vista, you can ISO recorder to burn to DVD and then go from there. You really need to find out what your system specs are es…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-22 3,916 dossier reads |
| Adding PPC to install disk “I am planning on buying a retail copy but I wanted to make sure it worked before going out and spending the money. I can't get it to boot even though I have done the coding for it to meet minimum requirements. I just wondered if the PPC sid…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-22 3,836 dossier reads |
| Zeph's ASU for AMD “Thanks guys so much! Can't wait to try it out!” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-09-03 3,366 dossier reads |