Torrent Software Crashes

I'm speculating this is due to my Time Machine fix of applying IONetworkingFamily.kext version 1.6.0. This seems to be confirmed by the fact that my alternate install works fine with Transmission and UTorrent.

If I have to choose then Time Machine will go - haven't really learned how to use it.

Voodoo Kernel

I'd quite like to try the Voodoo kernel - I think its such a good project.

Settings

Some new stuff

• - Language Translations
• Kernels
  • + 9.5.0 Voodoo Kernel
• Fixes and Patches
  • + Seatbelt.kext 10.5.5
• DSDT Patches
  • + Patch DSDT
• Alternate Bootloaders
  • + Chameleon with piccy
• + Applications (install all)

Before you do any of this make sure you've tested the installation

Get Account Back

In System Preferences | Accounts

• create a new admin account with user name Andrew Premdas
• right click on account to select 'advanced options'
• change home directory to /Volumes/users/andy
• disable automatic login, or set it to new account

Account Functionality

Not enough to get the account back, want to get it working as before - lots to do here.

Terminal Colors

These depend on SIMBL plugin, what I did was to copy relevant files from previous working distribution to same location in new distribution. Most of the files I keep in my account, however the following have to be in the system to work

/Library/InputManagers ...

So as root you need to copy them from an old system to the new one e.g.

sudo cp -R /Volumes/Kalway/Library/InputManagers /Library

TextMate

Git

Gems

Boot Flags

• -f this tells OSX to load all kext files individually (normally OSX caches them to save time). You only really need to do this on first boot

• -v this tells OSX to show you boot messages, instead of showing default grey screen. This is really essential if your having problems.

OSX Initial Setup

Keyboard Identification

OSX fails to identify keyboard just press OK. When it asks you to press key next to left shift press lots of keys - this will cause keyboard identification to fail (a good thing). Now choose US Keyboard, UK keymapping.

Forms

You can ignore registration form (just don't fill in details). Create a user as noraml

Problems

GetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

This error is a real pain, it occurs all over the place, but is supposed to have been fixed by the ethernet string in EFI. I had to fix it by patching /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist as suggested here and here

• use PList Edit Pro to edit this file

  sudo pledit  /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist
  

• reboot and use Console to see that errors have gone

Orange Drive Icons

This happens because OSX has not properly recognised your drives as SATA (thinks they're external). Fix by applying IOAHCIFamily.kext using UInstaller.

Time Machine Error

TimeMachine won't let you choose a drive citing inability to find network interface to drive. This is fixed by replacing IONetworkingFamily.kext using UInstaller. Replace existing 1.6.1 with 1.6.0 - requires reboot.

Multiple Drives, Multiple Installations

Ideally you need to have more than one drive and more than one partition on each drive to work with. This is so you can maintain a working installation you can boot to when you bork your other installations. All of the following are HFS partitions (so we can put really big files e.g. disk images on them)

1. Spare - used to store disk images and as a dumping ground
2. osx - aims to be my main osx86 installation
3. osx-alternate - aims to be my secondary osx86 installation
4. osx-alternate-x - another alternative on seperate disk

The main reason for this is speed. Booting an OSX DVD is very slow, so we want to do everything on hard disk. The nature of hackintosh installation is that you will require alot of reboots before you get things correct, there is also a fair chance you'll bork an entire drive and not be able to boot from it.

Useful Tools

Universal OSx86 Installer known as "UInstaller" is the main tool of choice, though its so powerful you have to be very careful with it. This should be installed on all you osx installations

PList Edit Pro - helpful for editing plists, particularly the command line tool which is installed on first usage

Booting Drives

If you've borked a drive and can't boot it use UInstaller to install PC_EFI to volume (currently v9 Chameleon 1.0.12). This should get you back to at least having a boot menu

Setup

Have to

• get through the installation garbage
• get networking working
• migrate settings

Because we are migrating, the initial account you create should be disposable and not clash with an account being migrated across.

Modifying Network Kext

Support for both my adaptors is broken in this distro, so I had to modify the 'Info.plist' of the AppleYukon2 plugin inside the IONetworkingFamily. This should be included in next update, so I'll not detail.

see post 4

I have two users on my server

1. Deploy - who is responsible for deploying applications
2. Git - who is responsible for Git things

Using capistrano my deploy user has to get the latest src from the git user. Using ssh to do this kept giving me ssh errors.

In the end I had to create a key pair for deploy and put the public key in the git users authorized keys file. Because I could not log in as the git user I had to do this as root.

mv /home/deploy/.ssh/id-rsa.pub /home/git/.ssh/deploy.pub

then backup the authorized keys file and then change permissions so I can write to it.

cd /home/git/.ssh
cp authorized-keys authorized-keys.old
chmod 777 authorized-keys   # give all access
cat deploy.pub >> authorized keys # must use double arrow or will overwrite not append!!
chmod 600 authorized-keys # has to have minimal permissions or ssh will complain

Warning

Instructions above are very rough and probably not totally accurate be careful

Update

May well have been able to do this using

set :ssh_options, { :forward_agent => true }

Which forwards ssh keys from the local machine through the web-server to the git-server

Get Passenger

I used gem to install passenger. Running as root

gem install passenger

This installed passenger 1.0.5. To then setup passenger I ran

passenger-install-apache2-module

This runs an installation program that is really very good. The first thing it did was check dependencies. I was missing a couple, and my initial attempt at installing the missing packages failed. So I had to update my system. Again as root

 apt-get update
 apt-get upgrade

After that installing the missing packages worked fine.

Changes from Apache Upgrade

Before I continue, I have to deal with the changes the upgrade to Apache caused. The upgrade introduced an envvars file to the apache configuration and changed the default config file to use these new environment variables. Accepting these changes meant I had to put back a bit of config into apache2.conf

server-name little-un

Loading Passenger

Re-running passenger setup found all dependencies and then provided 3 lines of config to put into my apache configuration

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-1.0.5/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
RailsSpawnServer /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-1.0.5/bin/passenger-spawn-server
RailsRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8

I put the first line in /etc/apache2/mods-available/mod_passenger.load and the others in /etc/apache2/mods-available/mod_passenger.conf. Then I enabled the mod, tested the config and restarted apache

a2enmod mod_passenger
apache2ctl configtest
apache2ctl restart

Finally I tested that my current websites were working OK