On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 11:00 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Craig White wrote:
this may be useful (apparently you can't use fdisk on an Apple system) # parted -l Model: Maxtor 6Y080L0 (ide) Disk /dev/hda: 82.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: mac
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 512B 32.8kB 32.3kB Apple 2 32.8kB 1081kB 1049kB hfs untitled boot 3 1081kB 106MB 105MB ext3 untitled 4 106MB 641MB 535MB linux-swap swap swap 5 641MB 82.0GB 81.3GB ext3 untitled
obviously the yaboot partition is #2
That's a 100G drive?
---- parted says that it's an 82G drive ----
OOo has a terrific set of tools for document creation...I think it puts Appleworks to shame.
Different strokes for different folks. OOo feels clumsy to me. Feels too much like MSOffice.
---- totally intentional - It allows people to leverage what they already know rather than scuffling through a completely different interface. ----
That may be in part because I've been burned by MSOffice so many times that even the slightest whiff of MS turns my stomach.
But what I'm using that is indispensable to me right now is a little feature where you can bury a spreadsheet in a "draw" document, show small windows on the printable page, and use the sort function with random keys to randomize the words in the printed list. Kind of a slick way to make word bingo cards, among other things. And I'm doing a lot of less program-like stuff with the drawing software, too.
That SVG editor (inkscape?) that was in the news recently may help a lot for when I need to do drawings.
Thinking about this, I suppose I should be able to build something similar with hidden worksheets in the MSOffice-centric way of thinking. Maybe I'll try that with OOo sometime. (I do use it on other, more powerful hardware. And I have to admit, I should not be surprised if the AppleWorks version might turn out to be less intuitive to my fellow teachers who might want to use the teaching materials I'm creating than an MSExcel "workbook" or whatever that would be called. Also, I've thought, several times, that I might be able to get even better effects by programing a plugin for OOo, just haven't had the time and luck to figure out how to get a handle on that yet.)
---- you really should be using scribus - desktop publishing because you can put all sorts of different elements (text/graphics) anywhere on the page. ----
I think you mean EFI, which is iNTEL's take on openfirmware?
---- indeed ----
you probably got the best I had to offer - I actually made a clean install of OS 9.1 that I then made into a dmg file with 'Disk Utility' so I could just dump a full OS 9 setup onto any computer running OSX so it would work in Classic Mode or reboot to OS 9 if I chose it in 'Startup Disk' (it's just under 300 mb).
That might also work, but the games aren't the only things. An old Metrowerks compiler/IDE, for example, easily consumes 1G, and I'm not anxious to put that on an image file on this 300MHz iBook. Don't know how much longer I'll need it, but I still need it for a little while.
---- the dmg file is a time saver meaning that I didn't have to struggle through creating an OS 9 setup once I had the image, I could mount the image and just copy over the 'System Folder', 'Applications (Mac OS 9)' folders and I was pretty much set. ----
Actually, there are a number of ways I can free up partitions, once I get some old cruft cleared away in the dd-ed copy of the previous boot partition, but that's really not on-topic here.
I filed a bug report on the part of this where gparted won't make a small enough partition on my disk and anaconda won't use the partitions I can make -- bugzilla #460390
Thanks for trading ideas.
Hopefully, I can either get the time to get openBSD set up with X11 and the Gimp and OOo or I can find out enough to get it to boot ofboot and yaboot from my Mac OS 9 partition in the next few months.
Really want to see how heavy OOo is in Linux on this box. The NeoOffice fork of OOo was too heavy on Mac OS X 10.2 with 192M of RAM. If I want to try that again, or if I want to try the new OOo for X11 on the Mac, I'll have to upgrade the iBook to 10.3, and I'm not anxious to spend the money and time on that. I'd rather just get a new notebook that can handle it OOo better under Linux. Some of these webbooks look really nice, and especially handy for when I want to do some work on the train.
More rambling than useful information here, hopefully not too much noise.
---- Neo-Office has been a performance pig on every installation I have seen - such a pig that it is unusable...period...at least OOo is usable but you are correct that on Mac OSX 10.2, there are few options.
With only 192 mb RAM, I would probably investigate whether I could get XFCE running on ppc just to liven it up.
good luck
Craig