Comments for Crispin Flowerday

Comment on Dapper on mac mini ? by Chris Buckley

Chris Buckley — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Crispin,

Another good utility is 'rEFIt': http://refit.sourceforge.net/

I use it on my macbook, its rather lovely. All the best,

Chris

Comment on Dapper on mac mini ? by Crispin

Crispin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Jonah,

Thanks! I can’t believe I haven’t found that link before, following the instructions works beautifully, and my mac mini is how 100% dapper

Comment on Dapper on mac mini ? by Jonah

Jonah — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re interested in installing Edgy, you can blow away the whole Mac and EFI partitions and install GRUB to the MBR, provided that you change the disk type from GPT to MS-DOS, either with Apple’s DIsk Utility or with gparted. Single-booting with Dapper requires chrooting and a patched version of grub–there’s a thread on the Ubuntu Forums about it here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=233243

Comment on Dapper on mac mini ? by Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I installed Fedora Core on a mac mini with no problems. First you need to install bootCamp to ‘prep’ it. Once you’ve done that reboot with the installer CD, delete the Mac partition (leaving the first partition of around 100 Meg which seems to be identified as vfat) and partition away and it just worked for me. (the first partition ended up being a EFI partition for something).

Peter

Comment on Dapper on mac mini ? by Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I did it by burning a Dapper PowerPC “Alternate” CD, booting from it (press the ‘C’ key while booting) and just installing it that way.

Or do you have one of the new shiny Intel ones? In that case: I have NO idea.

Comment on iPod support on Linux by David

David — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Give retune a try. its a little python script with which you can use you ipod just like a normal mp3 player. just copy your files to the pod with nautilus and then run retune to copy them to the ipod-database. works perfectly for me.

Comment on iPod support on Linux by Crispin Flowerday

Crispin Flowerday — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

fl0yd,

Lets see … Why all the tabs, I can’t at first glance work out what they are all for and how the 2 panes at the top relate to each other. Never did I say that rhythmbox (or even iTunes) was a great UI, but at least I vaguely understand them ….

(oh and it crashes on edgy with my ipod, but I think that is related to the fact that libipoddevice doesn’t know about it (this is being worked on).

Karl,

Ahh, I missed the ‘mktunes.pl’ step, that was obvious …

Comment on iPod support on Linux by Karl Lattimer

Karl Lattimer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

With gnupod utils you need to run the mktunes.pl script like this after using gnupod_addsong.pl

{{{
gnupod_addsong.pl -m /mnt/ipod track1.mp3 track2.mp3
mktunes.pl -m /mnt/ipod
}}}

Then your ipod will see the tracks, its still a pile of poo though but it works on my ipod using the ipod plugin for freevo.

Comment on iPod support on Linux by fl0yd

fl0yd — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

screenshots of gtkpod @ http://www.gtkpod.org/screenshots.html

Comment on iPod support on Linux by fl0yd

fl0yd — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What’s wrong with the gtkpod UI??? I never had any major issues with it…

It’s no iTunes perhaps, but from the screenshots I’ve seen it does look better than rhythmbox.