Yesterday I began the process of “starting over from scratch” with the MacBook and the two restore discs that came with it. I won’t bore you with the details, since the install was pretty much a “follow the bouncing ball” process that would be hard to mess up (and recording the procedure in this blog post wouldn’t really benefit “Mac Nubs”). What I will do is note a couple things I found interesting during this ordeal:
- Verifying the Installation Disc Before Proceeding
During the OS installation process, the MacBook wanted to make sure that the installation disc was good and readable before proceeding. Even though I understand why this is a good idea, it adds anywhere from 30 to 40 minutes to the recovery process. Also, if I’m not mistaken, the hard drive is already wiped at this point in the process, so why bother verifying? If the disc is bad, it’s bad and there’s no turning back now!
- Where the hell is iMovie?
This one really threw me for a loop. After installing Leopard clean and updating it to the nines, I let my seven year old son get on the MacBook. The first thing he asked was “Where’s iMovie?” I took the helm and went to the Applications folder. Sure enough, there was no iMovie to be found.
A few Googles later, I found a hint to a solution that led me to insert Install Disc 1, select the option for just installing the software packages, found the install for iMovie and loaded it. Can anyone explain to me why it wasn’t automatically installed with the rest of the iLife products?
All in all, the procedure was relatively painless. I hope this process was worth getting Boot Camp to run properly.
When not referring to himself in the third person, Brian likes rain and getting caught in Pina Coladas. Oh, and let's not forget making love to Cape dunes. Yeah, those really do it for me....er, um.. I mean Brian.
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June 5th, 2008 at 8:36 am
So OS X isn’t magic, it can crash? Well this is news to me, my impression from most OS X cultists is that nothing can ever go wrong with it where as Windows has as many holes as swiss cheese with extra holes punched out of it.
Regardless I like the idea of being able to check the cd for defects but it would be nice if it was an option, like with a lot of debian based linux installs. That way if the installation fails you can check the cd, but you aren’t forced too. Then again linux is about choice and OS X is about kissing the feet of Steve Jobs.