Well, I started moving more toward doing actual work today. I finished off copying various installation CDs (for the various operating systems we work with, along with some other utilities) this morning. After that, I was shown how the SCSI bus analyzer works. It's kind of interesting, though probably not quite as neat as I would have liked..
Then, I was tasked with updating a Mac from OS X version 10.1.5 to 10.2 (Jaguar). Unfortunately, the OS didn't want to upgrade—it hung at an early screen while “Reading Packages...” Anyway, I Googled on the problem and discovered that you need 128 MB of RAM for 10.2, and the machine I was on only had 64.
The funny thing was that the screen after where the machine hung included the requirements.. Of course, I think it would have been best if the installer detected that only a small amount of memory was available, and warned the user.. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention.
Anyway, a lot of this Mac stuff is related to work we might do
because of changes in 10.3 (Panther).
I spent a little time thumbing through some Mac OS books they had, just to get myself up to speed on some of that stuff.
Well, anyway, I'd better get to Rainbow so I can get some food. I need something to eat in the morning ;-)
Posted by mike at July 1, 2003 07:13 PM | Work | TrackBack