[lbo-talk] mac xp bsd help

Charles A. Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com
Sat Jun 21 14:48:52 PDT 2008


Hey, LBOers. This morning an old friend came by to give me his old iBook with some early version of OSX 10. After about an hour of fiddling around I got on my old dial up account and logged in which is where I am at the moment.

Some questions. I can't find a browser. Something called Safari(?) which looks like a browser doesn't seem to respond.

What I need is of course the missing manual. So I could use a web site reference that covers setting up the default utilities on an old iBook and how to set-up a Mac on a FreeBSD 6.2x.

Here is the crazy thing. Now I have BSD running on the first disk, XP on the second drive and an iBOOK and can't get any of them to do all the cool kid media stuff---mainly because there are no manuals anymore to read and struggle with. The problem with most of the on-line stuff is it is in bits and pieces which usually doesn't quite applay to the particular `how to' I am looking for.

So, starting at the top. Any suggestions on a good XP manual that covers system configuration, including video, cd-dvd drivers (where to get them and how to install them), erasing a badly configured XP (my current status on that), hooking up ethernt DSL on XP, and other semi-advanced stuff...

Thanks...

CG



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