mercurysquad Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 (edited) Haha yeah. Thanks to this wonderful forum, after 3-4 days of tinkering around, I have managed to get basically everything that I need working the way I want. Sound, wireless, ethernet, graphics etc. Software is setup nicely, home folder on another partition etc etc. Now suddenly I have nothing to fix and no more tinkering to do.. time to actually start using it now Unless I want to be anal about it and start to mess around again trying to fix my pcmcia card or infrared and things liek that which I'll probably never need. Windows > Linux convert > probably Mac OSX convert. Currently dual booting Ubuntu and MacOSX. Tiger is my main OS now, ubuntu only for courses and stuff which require a linux environment. Edited March 14, 2007 by mercurysquad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45311-so-now-what/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Hmm, I'm curious. What method did you use to move/redefine your home directory to another partition? hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45311-so-now-what/#findComment-323804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercurysquad Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 (edited) I used this method roughly: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...040716153639236 But it assumes you are doing a clean install. I did a clean harddrive-wiped-out install of osx86, on a 10 GB partition, rest empty. Later I decided to create another HFS+ partition, which was a pain in the ass. The Disk Utility wouldn't format the empty partition thinking it was somehow a Linux partition. Reformatting using GEdit, into a FAT32 partition allowed me to use it as a separate volume for a while. Then I used fdisk to manually edit the MBR and changed the partition's ID to 0xAF. After rebooting, Disk Utility recognized it as HFS+ and allowed me to reformat it as Journaled Mac OSX Extended. Now I had two partitions, the first one on which OSX was originally installed, the second one which I had just formatted as HFS+ (apart from the extended partition containing 2 linux partitions). From then onwards I followed the steps in the article linked above. I didn't use the Applications or Swap partitions, though. Just the /Users. Edited March 14, 2007 by mercurysquad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45311-so-now-what/#findComment-323814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Thanks for the link. Could you post here if you encounter any kind of trouble with that? I have read about users having errors with certain applications (like Office for OSX for instance) and I am really interested in finding out more. I also read that merely changing your users's directory path in the "Netinfo Manager" could do the trick. Cheers, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45311-so-now-what/#findComment-323843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercurysquad Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 Nope, no problems at all so far (apart from partitioning the harddrive in the first place). The directory structure is still the same, home folder is in /Users/myname so programs don't see any difference. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45311-so-now-what/#findComment-324345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 That sounds great. I've been wanting to do that for a long time. I'll give it a try. hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45311-so-now-what/#findComment-324599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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