Disaster...

Take it from me, don't bother compiling Gnumeric, settle for OpenOffice. To much work and frustrating getting things to work properly. At least I'm one experience richer...

Why this change in attitude? Well, all because darwinports and my selfcompiled programs tilted my MacOSX installation somewhat. And when I tried to re-install OSX the drive in the mini started acting up. I left it whirring and odd sounding over the night, and when I came back to my Mac in the morning, the grey logo screen was still there with the drive silent.

Now, you might think a faulty drive, but that is not the case. After I got the information from Apple tech support, that if the CD/DVD is stuck in the drive, reboot and hold in the mousebutton (the left one) after the ding sound, and it will eject. After I got out the DVD OSX booted up. Checking the DVD, and there where some fingerprints on the read side of the disc. Who would have know that a DVD would be so sensible.

Who said migrating would be easy? Not me... Lessons learnt:

1. see to it that the dvd read side is clean
2. make a backup of the os disc
3. store the original somewhere safe
4. call tech support even if one is a "pro"

I've now reinstalled OSX and I will not be compiling anything soon. Oh, and it was quite hard to get through to Apple support. I eventually got through, and luckily he helped me in my dire situtation. And now after a couple of hours, I'm up and running, listening to ASFRadio.com on Itunes. Great music, kudos go to the radiostation DJ for playing really great music.