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Install Leopard on a software RAID

Posted on March 16th, 2008 in Wiki HowTo | 1 Comment »

1 - Boot with the DVD until it comes to the Installer.

2 - Click on Utilities and choose diskutil.

3 - Select one of the two disk intended to create the RAID
(for the example, I use disk’s size on my system).

4 - Create 2 partitions (using GUID partition table) :
- BOOT 1 G
- RAID 147,9G

5 - Click RAID and configure it.

6 - Drag and drop the 147,9G partition and the second disk below the choices for your RAID.

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Find Device ID’s with Mac OS / Linux

Posted on March 16th, 2008 in Wiki HowTo | No Comments »

Download this file. (pciutils_osx_installer.pkg)

1 - Double click on it and follow instructions to install.
2 - Open a Terminal.
3 - Type “lspci -nn
4 - You should see something like this example:
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Find Device ID’s with Windows

Posted on March 16th, 2008 in Wiki HowTo | No Comments »

1 - Go to Configuration Panel/Hardware Manager
2 - Select the device of which you want to find the device id
3 - Right click on it and select “Properties” then “Details
4 - For this example I choose the device “NVIDIA MCP2S Parallel ATA Controller“. You should see a line which begin with:

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How to disable Spotlight

Posted on March 16th, 2008 in Wiki HowTo | No Comments »

If you like to disable the Spotlight Feature, open a Terminal and type

sudo nano /etc/hostconfig

Then search for the following line:

SPOTLIGHT=-YES-

and edit it like below:

SPOTLIGHT=-NO-

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How to Load a Kext

Posted on March 12th, 2008 in Wiki HowTo | No Comments »

1. Copy the (new) kext files to /System/Library/Extensions

2. Open the Terminal & type the following Commands (hit enter after each line):

sudo -s (-> your root password)
sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/[NAME].kext
sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/[NAME].kext
rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/Caches
reboot

Now use -f at boot to force the rebuilding of kext files.

OR do this definitely by typing the following Command Line in Terminal:

kextcache -a i386 -K /mach_kernel -m /System/Library/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions

Loading Kext Files on the fly:

1. Open the Terminal & type:

sudo -s
kextload -v [NAME].kext