On Mar 5, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Fred Thiel wrote: > > > From: Christopher Satterfield <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, March 3, 2012 10:57:11 PM > Subject: Re: Insomniac iMac > > Did you have an external hard drive connected? That seems to be my biggest > problem with computers that won't sleep. > > Apparently it was an additional corded mouse and keyboard that I had > connected because the aborted linux install didn't recognize my bluetooth > mouse and keyboard. I didn't disconnect it due laziness and a sometime desire > to install Mint 12. I did have an external HD connected, but after > disconnecting everything, I re-connected the external HD and everything > worked.
Save for a few specialized uses (kernel hacking, some close-to-the-silicon uses, it's vastly simpler to install and use Linux via a VM You can start it up and run it full screen and basically work as if you have a pure linux system. All the mac bits are accessible (camera drive, SD slots etc) and it eliminates weird issues like this. My personal favorite VM app is VirtualBox, not the least because it's free, as in beer and (with some issues) as in speech. <https://www.virtualbox.org/> Virtual Machine is NOT an emulator, this isn't slow...,my Windows 7 VM runs as fast as Bootcamp on my iMac for the stuff I use it for (including, ironically my Xen Center VM management panel for our virtual server farm), so long as it has sufficient RAM*. I can assign multiple CPUs on the VM and it will appropriate the same number of cores on my iMac. The one place VM's suffer against real hardware is for gaming; and even disadvantage is dwindling as the VM developers improve their virtual video cards. Definitely much easier than messing about with boot-camp installs and multi-booting, etc. *Which means significantly kicking up the defaults set by most VM programs when they create a machine...my Win7 VM gets 2 gigs of RAM all to itself. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
