installing sl from scratch

2009-12-02 Thread anouk radix
Hello everyone, I would like to reinstall from scratch (meaning i will reformat my disk with disk utility and then install). I can put my documents/music on my external hd and I guess I can also export my voiceover settings and mail settings to the seem location. Bug I wonder how i can preserve

Re: installing sl from scratch

2009-12-02 Thread Scott Howell
Anouk, First if you downloaded iWork and you have a license, you can redownload it if necessary as long as you have the license key. You probably could just copy the apps, but remember there are preference files etc. that if you setup, you will want to copy those as well. Being that I've done

Re: installing sl from scratch

2009-12-02 Thread anouk radix
Hello, Yes I guess this will be the cleanest way to do things. I have installed all these infovox voices and vo utility is getting really sluggish also I seem to have problemswith voicover at times/internet does not seem to work immediately if i start/come back from sleep and vo is slow if I

RE: installing SL server on a macbook

2009-11-02 Thread Blake Sinnett
support to its EFI implementation. Subsequent Macintosh models shipped with the newer firmware. All current Macintosh systems are also able to boot BIOS Operating Systems such as Windows XP and Vista. (With the exception of the Xserve platform) From: jamy...@gmail.com Subject: installing

Re: installing SL server on a macbook

2009-11-02 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Yep, I looked a bit deeper, and that info was not relevant anymore. I am trying to find a way to open the boot.efi file, as i have found a reository of all mac model identifiers and their model names. Best --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

installing SL server on a macbook

2009-11-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, i've found this link, which gives some thorough info about open firmware, which is the boot seeker for all macs. http://mac.linux.be/content/guide-open-firmware-apple-bios There are a bunch of commands, pertaining to the solaris environment for booting the mac from different drive

RE: installing sl server on macbook

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Ventura
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yuma Antoine Decaux Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:41 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: installing sl server on macbook Hi list, I've gone around places and found out that there is an smbios.kext file which is in hex, itself being

installing sl server on macbook

2009-10-29 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, I've gone around places and found out that there is an smbios.kext file which is in hex, itself being the information pertaining to the model identifier of a mac, whether macbook rpo, desktop, macbook, etc. I've checked the requirements for s server and it says that it requires a

installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread May McDonald
Good morning everyone. I will be getting my copy of sl this afternoon and was wondering what I need to do to install it? Do I need to backup anything? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi May, If you have anything important that you want to keep, you should back it up regularly. If you are a caution to the wind type like me though and never keep a backup, you can still install snow leopard and you won't lose anything. I've done 3 or 4 of these now, and they all went

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Howard Dupuis
Here's what someone I trust to know such things once told me when I asked him a similar question: You don't *need* to have backed up, unless something goes wrong, of course. I got his point. On Oct 20, 9:34 am, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Good morning everyone.  I will be getting

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi May, In case you haven't installed yet, I would recommend personally not to upgrade it. It's the easiest way if you do prefer to keep all your settings and so-forth, but if you reformat by using Disk Utility from the Snow Leopard DVD, you can at least be sure you won't get any strange

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. All I did to install Snow Leopard is: 1. With Leopard running, put the Snow Leopard DVD in. 2. Run the application on the DVD that was called Install Mac OS 10 or something like that. 3. After the install was finished, the computer restarted. I didn't lose any of my applications,

RE: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Frank Ventura
Sent: Tue 10/20/2009 9:34 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: macvoiceo...@freelists.org Subject: installing sl Good morning everyone. I will be getting my copy of sl this afternoon and was wondering what I need to do to install it? Do I need to backup anything? Thanks. No virus

installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread christos hux
hi May I would advise whatever route you go about for the snow leopard to have all important data to you backedup. its not a problem for you until you experience lost data that you can not get back since it was not backedup somewhere. With the snow leopard upgrade now you

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello May, I always do a clean install to keep things neat and tidy. If you do a Time Machine backup before the installation, you won't lose anything. Preferably, you should use an external hard drive for your Time Machine backup. Then eject the external disk. Shut down your machine. Then