The Educated Kiwi
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iMac 17inch hdd install made easy with youtube
Dec 8th
So after we upgraded our home iMac we passed our old one on to Natalies parents which after six months required a rebuild as the drive was corrupted. I should have know the death bell was ringing but reformatted and reinstalled instead.
Then as I leave for Australia Nat rings saying it’s died again and they need it for the NCEA exam timetable that my Mother in law supervises. Bugger. So with fear in my head I thought here is a dead logic board but being well out of warranty I decided little was to be lost from replacing the internal hard drive.
The photo below shows the innards on the dining room table as I followed this video on you tube. Great after five minutes it was apart. Then off to the shop for a new 250gb SATA drive for $150 and put it in, reversed the process and began reinstalling the OS. Now all thats required is to see what I can rescue with disk warrior on the old drive. But once the iMac is out of warranty it certainly makes this an easy option for schools with these machines, especially for media where a 1tb drive could go nicely.
Ubuntu on iMac 233Mhz
Jun 6th
I guess this falls in the just because I can folder but a few weeks ago a parent dropped off a beautiful indigo iMac 233 Mhz with 192 mb of RAM at Natalie’s school. Now I know that this machine is essentially an anchor and that most IT departments wouldn’t bother but I thought that I’d take it home and turn it into a) A goldfish bowl (That was way too time consuming even for me) b) A cat bed (this may still happen) or c) see how it runs with edubuntu. This photo shows it happily making progress.
And all I did was found the ubuntu site and got the correct powerpc download. Yes I have had to install the old 6.10 version (edgy eft) but all seemed to go very smoothly (like I doubted it). So will see how this goes.
I guess since we found that Microsoft aren’t supporting OS X office 08 for schools alternatives are my flavor of the month. Must say I have yet to miss having office at home. I guess keynote is better anyway, as I read on Presentation Zen the other day as something to take to the powerpoint design team ” copy keynote and improve on that” Excel yeah maybe but I promise I’ll admit it if it ever comes up and I left word behind a while ago. I do still save all my documents in .doc format by default but as more things are done in google docs this is less of an issue.
I’m looking forward to trailing the open office aqua as opposed to neooffice but that might be just being picky.
So enough about me how did ubuntu run on the iMac well…
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