[geeks] OSX Server

[sammy ominsky]

On Mar 15, 2005, at 21:20, velociraptor wrote:

> Apparently in 'books, this is activated by a magnet/reed switch.

Yeah, i just had to have mine replaced.  Much like my kids, my 
powerbook refused to go to sleep and wake up when it's supposed to.  
They also replaced the DC board and logic board, though they didn't 
tell me why.

For some odd reason, the first step in any hardware repair with these 
guys is "Install the version of the OS that originally shipped on the 
machine".  AUGH.  I did a full backup before I sent it off, and got an 
ibook as a loaner while it was gone.  Happily, the ibook has a "Setup 
Assistant" that grabs your home dir and applications from your old 
machine, so all was well for the two weeks it took to get the PowerBook 
back.

Unfortunately, the PowerBook doesn't come with the same utility, nor 
will the Setup Assistant from the iBook run on it.  So I restored from 
the backup, but then i wanted all the stuff I'd done on the iBook in 
the meantime, so I've been trying like hell to merge it all, and having 
no luck at all.  :(

I just did an "Archive and Install" of the OS, and everything seems to 
be working as it should, for the most part, but now I've got to 
reinstall a whole bunch of software and customization I'd done over the 
year and a half I've had this thing.  :/

Bleh.

</venting>


---sambo