...or somewhere completely different: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6KHhRGVKs

This weekend has been rather a downer, so doing computer gaming wasn’t really in the picture. So I found something to take my mind off things - installing Leopard on my Dear Old Cube.

There are two problems doing this: the first, major, one is that it’s not possible, according to Apple, to install Leopard on anything slower than an 885MHz PowerMac G4, and the DOC is only 450MHz. The other one is that the DOC hasn’t had a keyboard or screen plugged into it since 2005: everything on it has been maintained via NVU for HTML editing (because that’s all it is, a web server) and VNC.

The first one is reasonably easy to do, but is complicated by the second: if the computer is booted in target mode, it’s possible to install from another specced machine. But since I was running Tiger on it already, there’s an option for booting in target mode.

So I took the DOC over to the dining table, hooked it up via a firewire cable to my Powerbook and did a backup. (Because that’s what boring old fuddy-duddies like me do - we practise safe hex). Then I rebooted from the Leopard DVD and installed it (archive and install, of course) on the DOC. At the end of that, it rebooted itself. Oh b——r, I though - what do I do now? I’ll need to find a spare keyboard and - oh, of course, it’s just using the Powerbook as a screen, and providing what little power it has itself to do the post-installation.

I checked around and found that everything was just fine. Just for fun I did a screen share with the iMac, then from there back to the DOC - in no time at all I had windows 20 deep and rising. Cool!

Take a deep breath. Take another one. Reboot. Reboot the Powerbook as well. Share screen - happiness pervades the room.

At least one thing turned out OK this weekend. Oh, that and the tamarillo chutney I gently simmered all afternoon to go with the fillet steak for dinner.

All together now:
Hunting tigers,
Out in India,
Out in
Out in
Out in India

If I didn’t know you better, LF, I’d say you were a deeply disturbed individual.

Keep up the good work.