Frank in Africa ‘08

soooo, lets finally write down the full story about what happened to my laptop.

As I wrote before the hard drive crashed because I killed a mosquito that had landed on my laptop, I hit it pretty hard which resulted in the head of the HDD skipping or breaking or something.

So after getting a new HDD (thanks Grrr) and a leopard copy (both these items were in Blaxtars bag that was missing for 8 days) I tried to fix my laptop for the first time. After opening the laptop case and putting in the new HDD without a problem I tried to install leopard… here’s where the trouble started…

1: my superdrive (CD/DVD player/burner) is broken so I had to use another computer to do it, which is fine, I had done this before and didn’t expect trouble, I tried 1 of the powerbooks and quickly realised the copy we got seemed to be Intel only or something, so I tried Beers Macbook pro, which also failed horribly with kernel panics and other fun stuff,

which led to point 2: basically the copy of the disk we got from college wasn’t burned the right way (as 1 could expect from the IT guys at college), after reading some forums about how the problem had to do with the DVD header being set wrong, we attempted to reburn it the right way, the problem was that a dual layer DVD was needed, and since this is africa, it was nowhere to be found, after 6 computer stores, Jeroen actually found an apple store that refused to help because they were doing inventory, but in the end we found a store that had the needed DVDs, so after burning, it didn’t work, so I got an external harddrive for 130 euros, and tried to use that as a boot disk, which also didn’t work, this all cost me about 2 days…

so I gave up for a while and waited for the teacher from college to get here and bring an original Leopard DVD, after receiving that yesterday, it was as easy as 4 click and 1 hour of waiting for it to complete the installation… I now once again have a laptop…it is a great thing.

Nina named it for me, since she felt like it’s such a personal extension of your life that it should have a name. His name is “mr Nilsson” atleast that’s what she said, my laptop isn’t the complaining type…

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