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[Richard Meyer]

Hi Garry - you're the bearded old fart from Collie, aren't you?

We met (if you're the same person I think you are) back in the good old
bad old days, when we all went to an "installfest" at (I think it was
Brad Campbell's place) in Freo. I seem to remember there being Anzac
biscuits around and all of us going to pub later and eating jalapenos
and drinking Guinness.

I have upgraded this thing with an OWC 1TB drive as well, but I got it
through MacFixit here in Oz, so no tools and so on.

Seems I'm going to need a Firewire-USBC to charge my phone and a
Firewire-ethernet to do a fairly normal install ....


Thanks for getting back to me - memories.


On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 19:17 +0800, Darth Vader wrote:
> Hi Richard, 
> I run a MBA with Linux Mint. I run the latest stable version just
> because. 18.3 I think.
> Everything works. Has copped a hammering over the years, still works
> fine.
> Have replaced the 128GB flash drive with a 1TB one. Easy. Came from
> Other World Computing in US. Local mob resell them at a higher price
> and are slower. They even supplied the special mac pentalobe driver to
> open it up and a torx to suit the internals. They even give you a
> caddy to transfer files off existing drive.
> 
> 
> Only downside is it doesn't have USB3, it wasn't that common in 2010.
> 
> 
> HtH..
> Regards Garry 
> 
> On 4 Jan. 2018 19:04, "Richard Meyer" <meyerri at gardenshark.org> wrote:
>         
>         Hi there,
>         
>         I have succumbed to the Apple media machine and bought a
>         second hand
>         MBPro off Fleabay - it's a nice machine, fairly snappy and so
>         on and the
>         touchpad is great - keyboard not too bad either.
>         
>         Anybody taken it to the next step and installed OFOS* on it
>         yet?
>         
>         I've used to magic of Google - mea culpa - should have used
>         DDG, I know,
>         and found quite a lot, lots written by almost technical
>         people.
>         
>         Also Youtube has a lot - some of it total gibberish and
>         others, full of
>         how to install as a VM.
>         
>         I have booted from USB stick and messed around, but wasn't
>         able to get a
>         network connection (WiFi)   (Kubuntu 16.04)
>         
>         If I were to bite the bullet and go ahead and install, what
>         are my
>         chances?
>         
>         Thanks in advance.
>         
>         
>         
>         *  OFOS - Our Favourite Operating System
>         
>         --
>         Richard Meyer
>         
>         As the ghost of a sceptic, I tend to stay pretty quiet.
>         
>         Linux Counter user #306629
>         
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-- 
Richard Meyer

As the ghost of a sceptic, I tend to stay pretty quiet.

Linux Counter user #306629