the_lemur
06-28-2005, 10:48 AM
I have an iBook G4, that I bought at $1100 just before the better $900 boxen came out. I have been thinking about installing Linux for some time (I have used dozens of distros on the PC), so I made an impulse purchase of a 200GB Maxtor external HD.
Error #1: Although it was less then obvious, I thought it came with USB and FW. It was USB only, and the FW version cost more. I should have taken it back to BestBuy and bought the FW version from Maxtor.
I then went on my way, backing up all my files to my external HD. I did not do this well, but for some reason Tiger kept telling me that "this file cannot be copied." I did my best to backup what I had. Then I tried to install Ubuntu Linux on my external HD, just to see if it worked, even though I was fairly sure it wouldn't. It didn't, as predicted. I then erased it, and proceeded to backup again, manually, without using the backup app that came with my HD. This was Error #2. I neglected to copy iLife at all, mistakenly assuming it was included on my Tiger DVD. None of my other proprietary apps that I DID copy worked properly, because I neglected to copy my "Library" folders, and just moved my home directory.
Next, I proceeded to erase and repartition my 30GB Internal HD, giving half for Tiger and half for Ubuntu. Everything went fine, and I installed Tiger. When I booted Tiger, I was horribly disappointed in the terrible backup job I had done. I tried to restore my most important files to my shrunk partition, and installed Ubuntu, which went fine. Once I booted Ubuntu, I discovered that i had to disable DRI to allow it to go to sleep, and that I had to download the development tools seperately. I also noticed that very liitttle of my my usual software functioned on Ubuntu PPC.
So here I am, with a botched installation, and no iLife, World Book, and many other applications, and having lost hundreds of MB of files.
Error #1: Although it was less then obvious, I thought it came with USB and FW. It was USB only, and the FW version cost more. I should have taken it back to BestBuy and bought the FW version from Maxtor.
I then went on my way, backing up all my files to my external HD. I did not do this well, but for some reason Tiger kept telling me that "this file cannot be copied." I did my best to backup what I had. Then I tried to install Ubuntu Linux on my external HD, just to see if it worked, even though I was fairly sure it wouldn't. It didn't, as predicted. I then erased it, and proceeded to backup again, manually, without using the backup app that came with my HD. This was Error #2. I neglected to copy iLife at all, mistakenly assuming it was included on my Tiger DVD. None of my other proprietary apps that I DID copy worked properly, because I neglected to copy my "Library" folders, and just moved my home directory.
Next, I proceeded to erase and repartition my 30GB Internal HD, giving half for Tiger and half for Ubuntu. Everything went fine, and I installed Tiger. When I booted Tiger, I was horribly disappointed in the terrible backup job I had done. I tried to restore my most important files to my shrunk partition, and installed Ubuntu, which went fine. Once I booted Ubuntu, I discovered that i had to disable DRI to allow it to go to sleep, and that I had to download the development tools seperately. I also noticed that very liitttle of my my usual software functioned on Ubuntu PPC.
So here I am, with a botched installation, and no iLife, World Book, and many other applications, and having lost hundreds of MB of files.