(Hint: To find your shortname, similar to OS X, type in 'whoami'.) To restore your work to your disk instantly, (note it will erase all old data off the disk after you execute dd), type the inverse of the command, where I'm plugging in the same info as before: 'dd if=/home/andrew/my_osx_backup of=/dev/sdb'. A few last notes: If your Apple can't boot, and you've made your backup as described in parts 1 and 2, you can still restore your computer without your OS X disc. Download a PowerPC version of Ubuntu, and burn the.iso to disc with ImgBurn for Windows, Disk Utility on OS X, or the Nautilus file manager in Linux. Run the live environment (do not install it!), plug in the removable disk, press Alt+F2, type gnome-terminal, press return, and finally, do something a little bit different than in previous steps.

• Download X11 For Mac

Installing X11 on Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) Apple's X11 is not installed by default when you install Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). It's available as an optional installation from the Tiger install DVD. If you forget to select it while installing Tiger, X11 Step 1. Insert the Macintosh OSX Install DVD disk 1. Wait for the CD folder to open.

Replace “password” with a new password of your choice. • Type reboot and press Enter.

It will _not_ work if you don't install X11 first from your: INSTALLATION DVD/CD - install X11 from your INSTALLATION DVD/CD for Tiger. (Panther will _not_ work).

Now thats out the way. I have a iMac intel duo running OSX Tiger and wanted to install Open Office. It installed fine but whenI try to open it it tells me I need X11 and when i tried to install X11 it says I have a newer version alrady installed. I cant find it and Open Office sure does'nt see it.

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What if you want to keep an archive (or snapshot) of your system that's bootable, you want to free up your disk, and you don't have a CD? That is no problem, and is completely free like the method above, as we will see. (But, hopefully, by then, you'll have retrieved your long-lost restore disc or have bought a new one.):) Part 2: Convert backup to disk image & restore Now that you have successfully made a long and tedious backup of your OS X copy that is bootable, you can actually free up that flash drive, and your computer's hard drive at ease as well. I'll cover the three main operating systems that people use here, and will explain how to do this on each.

To test the remote connection, try to open an X-window terminal by typing xterm in the ssh session. If this works, you're all set. If there is an error message Xlib: No protocol specified then type the following in a Mac Terminal window: defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.X11 nolisten_tcp -boolean false which modifies one of X11's default settings. To understand this command better, read the following brief explanation.

Depending on your local law, this might be illegal. So once again: If you run Tiger, install X11 from the Installation DVD which came with Tiger. Then run a Software Update to get the latest version for Tiger. This is 1.1.3. Absolutely no need to download anything from the net.

Reason #3: Run a Different Desktop Environment A little bored with OS X and Aqua? With X11, it’s possible to run an entirely different desktop environment on your Mac. This includes the ever-popular (KDE), which along with is one of the leaders in Linux graphical environments. Fink can get you a working KDE installation, and there are quite a few other methods to get to the same place. Googling for “KDE Mac OS X install” will bring up quite a few pages for research, but those actually inclined to run KDE on their Mac will probably enjoy the challenge (and master it quite easily).

The steps are: • Download Yosemite onto the working mac • Follow instructions for the basics on creating a boot disk, but you may want to use as well. • Reboot your computer, and after the startup chime, immediately press and hold the option key until you see a set of disks. • Use the arrow keys to select the USB Disk or CD(not Recovey-HD or Macintosh HD) • Installing OS X is simple from there. If the disk is corrupt or wiped (no recovery partition, no time machine copy, etc.) then this will be more difficult.

Individual X11 programs often have menus and other interface elements of their own in addition to that overall X11 menu bar, and those elements aren't consistent from one program to the next. For example, to open a menu in xterm, you control-click; other programs display their menus at the top of their own windows. Other interface conventions vary in X11. For instance, most of the time you can highlight a text selection in an X11 application, and select Edit: Copy or press command-C to copy it.

Please help me with another way. In summery, my computer has no files and I won't install a new OS. So I'm having a slightly different issue. I've followed your steps, but every time I hit 'erase,' it brings up a notice saying: 'Disk Erase failed with the error: Couldn't unmount disk.' I've attached a pic of the error. However, on the left one can clearly see the main '500.11 GB Toshiba MK5,' and below it, the 'Macintosh HD' option.

And over and over again for _Tiger_ systems: It's been written all in this thread (1., 3., 6., 8. Posting ) and 1001 others: 'use your disk' - Do _not_ download any X11 from anywhere on the net. This will _not_ work. Do _not_ donwload X11 from Apple. This is an _update_ only.

Introduction Returning to the main Installer window, you begin with the Introduction pane, which contains important information about the requirements for installing Mac OS X and what you need to do before installing it. For example, it is likely to warn you about checking for firmware updates. Read the brief message and click Continue. You have now completed the Introduction. License Next up is the License pane, which provides the Software License Agreement for the software you're about to install. Agree to the terms and then move on. Installer refuses to install.

Once upon a long ago, I bought a PB G4 with Panther installed (and still have those disks). But after a while, I needed/wanted to reformat my HD. And friend helped me out, but he installed Tiger on it (so I don't have those disks). Before installing GIMP i read through the read me file and checked wether I had X11. And also new that I had it, because i ran OpenOffice on it before. However, the version indicated was 1.0 So I first a general software update. No new updates needed, it said.

This is the image file that contains the information you need to create the backup disk. Step 2: Open Disk Utility (located in your Applications > Utilities folder). Step 3: Drag and drop the ' InstallESD.dmg' into the list of drives on the left and select it. This should make it appear in the Source box on the right. If not, you may have to click the ' Restore' tab as seen below.

-list /groups GroupMembership grep username And then remove your username from the groupname: dscl. Delete /groups/groupname GroupMembership yourusername Repeat for each group except for the user's own group.

Changing application defaults There are different mechanisms to change default behavior of programs on your Mac: Darwin shell programs The command-line programs that you will be running under X11 (or in the Terminal) are affected by environment variables, some of which are set in initialization files (or directories) starting with a dot in your home directory, e.g.,.xinitrc (see below). OS X Applications X11 itself is an Application under OS X. As such, its properties are determined in a way similar to the old Classic Mac's Preferences, residing in the user's ~/Library/Preferences directory. Those plists (property lists) are sort of a replacement for shell environment variables. To see the contents of these preference files, use the command defaults. Its man page explains this in more detail - for example, you can try default read to see the contents of a.plist file. The keywords in there are the 'environment variables', and some of them may in fact be changed from some interactive menu in the respective application, but some are 'hidden' to the average user of the application (like advanced preferences).

• In as either a package or a one for manual compilation, if you intend to customize your installation in any way. • of the unpackaged sources, if you wish to follow MacPorts development. • The target of the port(1) command, for users who already have MacPorts installed and wish to upgrade to a newer release.

B) Switch to the Finder, find the menubar at the top of the screen, open the Go menu, and click Utilities. Find and open Terminal. C) Now that you've got a black-and-white window with text in front of you, don't get scared.

Only about three commands will get entered here.:) From now on, I'll put code in quotes. Do NOT include the quotes unless specified when typing them in. Start by typing 'diskutil list' and press return. You can guess your drive by label or size, such as if it is 7.3 GB or labeled 'MYDISK' d) I'll assume my disk is /dev/disk1 in my case. So, I would type 'diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1' and press return. Replace 1 with your disk number. E) Now, for instance, to copy the data I copied in Part 1 to my home folder, and my shortname is andrew, I'd type in 'sudo dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/Users/andrew/my_osx_backup'.

You can restart, hold down the Option key right after the chime, and find your disk there. If it doesn't show up here, then your computer is too old to support USB booting, and you do need either a CD/DVD or a FireWire drive. Otherwise, congratulations! You successfully made a bootable OS X disk! That's the end of Part 1. Now, I'm going to go a little deeper than Part 1.

For starters, Mac OS X Extended is the same format that Mac OS 9 uses. If you select UFS, you will not be able to use that partition for Mac OS 9. UFS drives also prevent some Mac OS X applications from working correctly. About the only people who might prefer UFS formatting are the select few running Mac OS X Server and thus working primarily with the Unix software in Mac OS X, not the Aqua applications.

In describing this, Apple states, 'Mac OS X 10.2.5 and later updates have a different installation method for the new httpd.conf file. The Installer checks to see if you have modified the existing httpd.conf file.

• BSD Subsystem. (Only an option in Panther and earlier installers.) The BSD Subsystem is made up of optional components of the otherwise essential Unix software at the core of Mac OS X (as discussed in Chapter 4). Although these components are technically optional, some applications may not run correctly without them. Again, other than for the reasons described above, I would never disable this option. (In Tiger and later installers, this option isn't even available—the BSD Subsystem is always installed.) • Additional Applications. (Only an option in Panther and earlier installers.) If you choose this option, you can omit the installation of specific applications such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.

• Printer Drivers. From here, you can elect to omit specific printer drivers (such as those for particular brands of printers you do not own or expect to use).

It does not give me the oportunity to select anything. There seems to be no x11 software on those disks. How can I get GIMP to work????? > my question isam I looking at the wrong install () I have no idea what you have inserted into your DVD drive: when trying to look at the link you gave for your screenshot, I get this: > You do not have access to view this page. We're sorry, but you do not have permission to view the page you requested oops. > () or did x11 not come with my install disk?

With two partitions, you can erase the boot partition without losing whatever is on the second partition. Mac OS 9 on the second partition. If you have a Mac that's still capable of booting from Mac OS 9, you can make the second partition a Mac OS 9 boot volume. In fact, the ideal arrangement is to maintain two Mac OS 9 System Folders: one on a separate partition from Mac OS X and a second on the same partition as Mac OS X. Since some files work in Mac OS 9 directly but not in Classic (primarily extensions and control panels—for more on this, see the online Classic chapter), with only one copy of Mac OS 9 installed, you may have to choose between giving up on these programs so that you can use Classic in Mac OS X or keeping them and giving up on Classic. Having two Mac OS 9 System Folders allows you to use one version of Mac OS 9 (typically the one on its own partition) when you want to boot from Mac OS 9 and the other (the one on the Mac OS X partition) when you want to launch Classic—you can have your cake and eat it, too! A related benefit: If you hold down the Option key at startup (as discussed in Chapter 5), you can select a startup volume.

That's why I recommended taking the contents of your home folder and Applications out. 9) Click Restore, and if a sheet rolls down, click Restore again, and wait. Depending on the speed of your FireWire or USB port, this could take anywhere from an hour to HOURS of time. 10) Once everything is done, click the device that you just restored to. You can click the partition, but it's recommended to repair permissions from the root of the drive you restored to, which I'll get to in a minute. Click the First Aid tablet to switch to the First Aid pane, and click Repair Disk Permissions. Wait a while.

Now you have the output stream in your xemacs buffer which can be searched, copied etc. The same can of course be done in the Terminal application if you're not using xemacs. • I'm not biased against other editors such as vi. To prove this,. • Unfortunately, not all installed commands have man pages, even if they are pre-installed.

• Click the first of the two partitions. In the Volume Information section, enter a name in the Name text box and select a drive format—most likely Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Now click the second partition and repeat the process. Note: If you intend to boot from Mac OS 9, make sure the Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed option is selected, if such an option is present.

Those downloads may corrupt your system. Pdf repair for mac. But as i said, if you exactly know what your doing installing both SDK and User packages there's no need to install the SDK. SDK = Software Development Kit. You only need the SDK, if you want to develop software using X11.

• Erase and Install. This option erases your drive and gives you the opportunity to reformat the volume as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) or (the rarely used) Unix File System.

Again: Do _not_ download X11 from anywhere on the net, if you run Tiger. Use your Installation DVD/CD for Tiger.