MAC OS X on eeepc!

http://brokenfloppy.com/2009/01/ultimate-guide-triple-boot/

8. On the HDD Darwin boot loader appearance, press F8 quickly and at the "boot:" prompt, type "-v -f" (without quotes) and wait as verbose booting takes place successfully except for "Couldn't allocate Class RTL8169" error (see later) into the Welcome screen video sequence BUT without sound (as expected since no audio driver installed)...... smile.gif

9. BUT when the "Before You Begin...." screen appears and the USB keyboard is identified, followed by the "Welcome" screen and the country choice is made, followed by "Select Your Keyboard" screen and the keyboard layout is chosen, all without any problems, followed by the "Do You Already Own a Mac?" screen, THEN making ANY selection, e.g. "Do not transfer my information now", and clicking the "Continue" button causes the system to hang (even though the mouse pointer can be moved) for a while BEFORE the Welcome screen video sequence loops again back tothe "Before You Begin...." screen..... sad.gif

10. Solution: AFIK this solution is thanks to greyMD -

1. Run single user mode using the -s flag while booting i.e. type -s at the "boot:" prompt and wait for the prompt ":/ root#" to appear (I had to boot -s twice and press Enter after the static cursor appeared to get the prompt; you may not need to), type each of the following lines, followed by Enter and then waiting for ":/ root#" to re-appear.

2. Mount the file system by typing "mount -uw /" (without quotes) at the ":/ root#" prompt.
3. Change the root password by typing "passwd root" at the ":/ root#" prompt and then typing in a new root password and retyping it again as requested.
4. Create the .AppleSetupDone file by typing "touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone" (without quotes) at the ":/ root#" prompt
5. Boot the system by typing "exit" (without quotes) at the ":/ root#" prompt.

11. Reboot from HDD with "-v -f" and the OS X Login screen is presented; enter "root" as Name and for Password, the root password chosen previously, and the system logs you in as System Administrator.

Having rebooted with -v -f successfully…. the System Profiler shows.....
Chipset Model: Graphics by NVIDIA,
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
ROM Revision: NVinject 0.2.1
plus 1152x870@75Hz resolution 32-bit Color depth with Hardware Accelerated CI and QE Supported.....

How to open "noname" attachment in Linux

Got this off somewhere. It should work in Unix or Mac too!

1. Save the attachment from Gmail to the desktop, should be noname.
2. Edit it to remove the small MIME attachment near the top and bottom, also remove all the MIME header information and the MIME delimiter at the bottom of the file. What should be left with is a huge continuous chunk of text.
3. Run the following command...
openssl enc -d -base64 -in noname -out usefulfile
4. Open the file "usefulfile" and continue with life.