Great news, thanks a lot Evan! Thijs
On 21 mei 2012, at 22:29, Evan D. Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: > I took the much less technically satisfying but simpler route and talked to > Damien at Network Redux today. :) I suggested that he mail the Mac Mini to > me and I'd take care of the upgrade; he counter suggested that he could have > one of the engineers perform the upgrade for us. Sold. > > -Evan > On Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Evan Kinney wrote: > >> Okay, so this *would* have worked fine, except for that little bit I forgot >> where there's no way to get EFI to use a static IP for TFTP without hacking >> your way into the EFI shell with rEFIt or something. >> >> Then I was just going to resize the root partition so I could stick the >> image there and reboot… but then I remembered that you couldn't >> non-destructively resize HFS+ until 10.6. >> >> So, yeah. Here we are. Any other ideas? I'm nowhere near Portland. :) >> >> I did have another idea, though. VMware's free version of ESXi supports OS X >> as a guest as of v5. I have it running in production at work on some Xserves >> to host build nodes. I've never tried running it on a Mini, though. All the >> drivers seem to be there to support everything. I have a 2,1 model laying >> around somewhere, I'm sure; I'll see what I can make happen. Considering the >> lack of console access to the hardware, I'd think this would be a pretty >> good solution for platforms that are just kept around for regression testing >> and whatnot. >> >> On the other hand, Raritan makes a 0U dongle-ish 1 port IP KVM for around >> $400. I'd offer to donate one of the Avocent DSR2035s I have laying around, >> but they're 1U and have 48 ports, heh. >> >> /ek >> >> On May 17, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote: >> >>> Evan, >>> >>> I approve of your naming! >>> >>> Thanks for your awesome debugging work with the 1.5b1 10.6 dependency >>> issues. >>> >>> If you'll please email me your public key I'll get you added for access to >>> Smew. Muscovy's not running server, though if that would be helpful for >>> this and other purposes we can certainly upgrade it, no problem. >>> >>> Best, >>> Evan >>> >>> >>> On May 17, 2012, at 7:08 AM, Evan Kinney <evan.kin...@sas.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a NetBoot image I created a while ago that will do an in-place >>>> upgrade of 10.5 to 10.6.8 through a bit of hackery and magic with >>>> OSUpgrade.pkg. >>>> >>>> Is Muscovy running Server? It's fine if it's not; I have a NetBoot setup I >>>> can use at my house if need be. "bless" has a handy --netboot option that >>>> lets you point to any ABDP server and not rely on multicast discovery. >>>> That + --nextonly == unattended upgrade. >>>> >>>> Also, I don't think I ever properly introduced myself: hi, I'm Evan. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On May 16, 2012, at 4:17 PM, "Evan Schoenberg" <e...@adium.im> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Agreed. I would however like to have access to a share 10.6 testing >>>>> device; smew is useless to us on 10.5. >>>>> >>>>> -Evan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On May 16, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Colin Barrett <co...@springsandstruts.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Not up to date on what y'all have tried but switching to 10.6 seems like >>>>>> an absolute last resort. I mean, 10.8 will come out one day, and Xcode 3 >>>>>> isn't going to be viable to build 10.7/10.8 apps. Gotta figure this >>>>>> stuff out at some point, eh? >>>>>> >>>>>> -Colin (via thumbs) >>>>>> >>>>>> On May 16, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Thijs Alkemade <thijsalkem...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hey all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The dependencies for Adium 1.5.1b1 were pretty screwed up. IRC was >>>>>>> broken because of what I can only pin down to not doing a clean build, >>>>>>> libintl apparently has a problem with building for 10.6 on 10.7 with >>>>>>> Xcode 4.3 [1]. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In short, it is pretty much required to do a full clean build every >>>>>>> time and it seems every new release of Xcode breaks something else. I >>>>>>> think it would be a lot safer to go back to Xcode 3 on 10.6.8 (as long >>>>>>> as 10.6.8 is our target), so we always have the same compiler and >>>>>>> SDKs. I have an old Macbook which is still on 10.6.8, but it's in >>>>>>> pretty bad shape. So I'd much rather have one of the build machines >>>>>>> build the dependencies, but that would need a machine with 10.6.8 (and >>>>>>> we now only have Smew on 10.5.8 and Muscovy on 10.7.4). Maybe this >>>>>>> will also make it easy to distribute the dSYMs. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Adrian says Smew can't be upgraded remotely. Is there another way? >>>>>>> Could someone visit the datacenter? Can we ask NetworkRedux? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> Thijs >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [1] http://trac.adium.im/ticket/15996#comment:16 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Adrian Godoroja <robot...@me.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> Unfortunately i didn't find any way of install Snow Leopard remotely. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> - Adrian. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Apr 06, 2012, at 17:26, Adrian Godoroja wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hey guys, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> does anybody has around a licensed Snow Leopard disc? >>>>>>>> I'd appreciate if somebody could copy a SL dmg to the Muscovy, so i >>>>>>>> can try >>>>>>>> and install it on Smew. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Adrian. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Apr 06, 2012, at 14:57, Evan D. Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Go for it on both counts! Upgrade was completed successfully. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Best, >>>>>>>> Evan >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Friday, April 6, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Adrian Godoroja wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi Evan, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> thats great news. Will you also update Xcode, etc. or can i take care >>>>>>>> of the >>>>>>>> rest of the stuff? >>>>>>>> Also, are there any plans to update Smew to 10.6? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Adrian. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Apr 06, 2012, at 00:49, Evan D. Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm running an unattended installation to update muscovy to 10.7. The >>>>>>>> machine will be down for an hour or so while that does its thing. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -Evan >
