Showing posts with label Install. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Install. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 27, 2012


Lion doesn't come on any physical media.  Instead, you have download it from Apple's servers from the Apple store.  What if you bought a Mac with Lion already installed and you desperately need the install DVD because your hard drive got hosed.  The following will give you instructions on how to burn your own install DVD.


  1. Download Lion from the Mac App Store. The installer should show up in your Applications folder.
  2. Right-click on the installer and hit "Show Package Contents". Navigate to Contents > SharedSupport and look for a file called "InstallESD.dmg".
  3. Open up Disk Utility and drag the DMG file into the left-hand sidebar. If you're burning it to a DVD, insert your DVD, select the disk image in the sidebar, and hit the "Burn" button. Skip down to the last step to use it.
  4. If you want to burn Lion to a USB flash drive, plug it in and click on it in the left-hand sidebar in Disk Utility. Go to the Partition tab and select "1 Partition" from the dropdown menu. Choose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled) on the left.
  5. Hit the Options button under the partition table and choose "GUID Partition Table". You'll need this to make the drive bootable on a Mac. Hit the Apply button when you're done to format your drive (note: it will erase everything on the drive).
  6. Click on the "Restore" tab, choose the InstallESD.dmg file as the source and your flash drive as the destination. Hit the Apply button and it will create your bootable USB drive.
  7. Reboot into OS X and hold the option key when you hear the startup chime. You can boot into your DVD or flash drive from there.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Good ol' Bob

This post actually comes from one of my A+ assignments

Windows 98 - Part 1


  1. Create a Windows 98 boot disk -- Don
  2. Setting up hard disk -- Done
  3. Format hard disk -- Done
  4. Install Windows 98 -- Done 
  5. Name computer and Organization: Sean and MATC -- Done
  6. Cancel Rescue disk -- Done
  7. Remove floppy disks from drive 'A' -- Done
  8. No network Password -- Done
     9-11.  Generic graphics driver found: Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) found.

               SOLUTION:    • Make sure Windows 98 CD is still in the drive
                                         • Click on the Start menu and select Add/Remove Programs and make sure you also search in the Drivers folder
                                         • Find the Matrox 6200 driver in the list.  click OK


Windows 98 - Part 2

Helping out "Good ol' Bob"

  1. Bob wants his computer networked to MATCs LAN so he can access the internet for a project.
                SOLUTION:    • Make sure Windows 98 CD is still in the drive
                                           • Go to the Start menu then click on Control Panel
                                           • Click on Add or Remove Programs
                                           • Click on Add/Remove Windows Components in the sidebar to the left
                                           • Make sure Networking Services is checked.  Click Next
     2.  Bob wants the Freecell game installed on his machine, but it's not their.
                SOLUTION:    • Click on the Start menu and select Control Panel
                                           • Click on Add or Remove Programs
                                           • Click on Accessories and Utilities  and click the Details... button
                                           • Make sure Games is checked.  This will add all the games to your          computer.  If you only want Freecell, double click on Games and only checkmark Freecell
                                           • Click OK
    3.  Bob wants to increase the resolution of the screen
                SOLUTION:     • Click the Start menu and select Control Panel
                                           • Double-click on Display
                                           • Click on the Settings tab

    4.  Bob wants to be able to save images in the Paint aqpplication to the ".jpg" or ".gif" format.
               SOLUTION:      • First do a search on your computer for 2 files called "jpegim32.flt" and "gifimp32.flt".  If you cannot find these files then you can download the Officce Converter Pack from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212265 (the file is called Oconvpck.exe package)