tiger days 1
It should be really day 2 but yesterday evening I was a bit overoptimistic and tried to get MySQL, Ruby, Rails & Tracks installed and in the process totally wrecked my Ruby-system (and probably a few things more). Besides, I found out that the Carbon Copy Cloner work-around doesn\’t really work (that is, one canNOT boot from the cloned copy) etc. etc. In short, a lot of frustration. So today, I started all over again (using the install notes below to guide me and so I could reduce the total time to about 2 hrs). But, as this was the easy bit (still to come : MySQL, PHP, WordPress+LatexRender, Ruby&Tracks etc.) and I don\’t want to redo everything again when I do something horribly wrong I changed my overall tactics. I\’ll keep identical copies on my iBook and on my iMac and do the next batch of installs on just one machine and check whether everything works before syncing it to the other. If something gets messed up I resync to the state of the previous day. Just one question left : what program to use for the backup/restore now that CCC seems to be broken? Fortunately, there is still PsyncX which still seems to work fine (at least today…). Below, for what it is worth, yesterday\’s log of events :
Okay, I checked that I can still TeX papers and connect to the printer on the iMac (after Archive/Install to Tiger). Most other things have broken down, such as my mind on tracks and my MySQL-database, but I\’m quite hopeful I can rebuild them all. So, time for a drastic Erase/Install on my iBook.
12:04 : One final safety check. Connect the external HD, select the Carbon Copy Cloned partition as StartUp Disk and do a Restart to verify that it can be cloned back should everything go terribly wrong. Seems to work nicely, so change again from StartUp disk, restart and disconnect the external HD.
12:16 : Printed the macdevcenter install tips and made a fresh pot of coffee. Took the unread part of the newspaper with me, connected Jan\’s iPod, made it the new StartUp disk and did another Restart.
12:24 : Selected \’English\’ as the main language. Selected DiskUtility from the Utilities menu (before you have to select a Disk destination). Selected the HD, clicked Erase and choose Erase Free Space first, then choose the SecurityOption to \’zero out data\’. (Both steps require a lot of extra time but what is the point of doing an Erase if you don\’t erase properly? Btw. the macdev-article does not agree with me on this point.) Meanwhile, had some coffee and a read…
13:23 : Did quit DiskUtility which brought me back to the Installer. Selected the HD and clicked on Options to select Erase&Install and clicked Continue. Then clicked on Custom Install to choose which Packages to Install. Did choose all Printer Drivers but in Language Translations only selected : French, German and Dutch. Didn\’t select X11! Clicked : Install and had yet another cup of coffee…
13:45 : Restarted! Got me into the SetupAssistant. Didn\’t choose to transfer info from another Mac. It selected our wireless network immediately, and asked me for my .Mac account info. Did create my main account and finished at 13:53 Only had to stop iTunes from wanting to put PodSoftware onto the connected iPod… Checked for SoftwareUpdate but there was none. Am connected to internet but had to add my other mail-account. Done and received email at 14:05 Found our Printer but did gray out two-sided printing (have to remember later how I did set this up…).
14:12 : Time to add the Xcode Tools : opened the folder on the iPod and clicked on XcodeTools.mpkg . Followed he default installation. Finished and deconnected the iPod at 14:24 Took a break to decide how to continue. (21.97Gb available) Update today : do a custom install using also cross-development!
14:37 : Okay, first things first : get myself a working TeX-system starting from this page to get the latest version of TeXShop and the i-Installer and place both in the Applications folder and in the Dock. Placed the To Your Library folder of TeXShop in my ~/Library (containing the texmf etc. path for pdfsync). Then followed this page and the i-Installer to install the packages in the right order :
- FreeType 2
- libwmf
- Ghostscript 8
- ImageMagick
- FontForge
- TeX (did a Full install with 2005 Devel.)
Had a brief look through the other packages and maybe I\’ll install Latex to RTF and RTF 2 Latex later. Created a DMG folder and put the downloaded disk images into it. Created aPAPERS folder and transferred the last version of the paper with Stijn to check TeX but clearly it couldn\’t find the diagrams.sty file (I know I have to quit using this, but I\’ll better get it over for backward compatibility; put it into ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/. Ran TeX again without problems this time and checked the nice source-PDF syncing (apple-click to jump). Finished : 15:37
15:56 : As long as administration sends me Word documents and expects me to read them, I have no choice but to install Office X . The upshot was that while searching for the OfficeCD I found also the HP LaserJet 1320 CD and installed the driver so now I can print 2-sided (using Printer Setup Utility) . Done : 16:15
16:45 : Used the .mac System Preference to get syncing started with my iDisk to get adresses, calendars and passwords etc. on my iBook. Also filled in the Sharing Preferences. Now that I have the passwords at hand, it is time to get the latest versions of some of the shareware I own (and copy their disk image to the DMG folder)
- DevonThink
- DenonAgent
- Pod2Go : the site seems to be down at the moment but fortunately, I have a disk image of it which will have to do for now (note to self : check later whether the site is permanently dead…) Update today : it is up and running again…
and while I\’m at it I may as well get my wallet out and purchase the full version of Lite versions I like and use a lot :
Fortunately, there is also a lot of excellent freeware that I want to use
- QuickSilver
- Carbon Copy Cloner Update today : skip and use PsyncX instead.
- CocoaMySQL
- SubEthaEdit
One of the following days : MySQL, PHP and perhaps Tracks but first I desperately need to do some maths to kick off from all this nonsense…