Root, Lakers, wings

I’ve been installing root for two days and made many mistakes. At first I tried installing both from source and binary. Of course I failed. Then I thought maybe it will be better with the upgraded system. Thus I upgraded my OS. And the the first mistake came out.

The space for upgrading is about 11G and I still have 14G free. But after upgrading, I couldn’t get my system restarted. But my spare space became 3G. I asked customer service about this. A girl said it may need more space than that. When restarting the system, it may make other configurations and delete all the unnecessary files. That’s probably why I couldn’t get it restarted.

But I didn’t backup my files which was a very serious mistake. Any one with common sense wouldn’t do that. I never installed any OS and I took it for granted that upgrading should be very safe…

Luckily, I found a way out. I cleared up a removable hard disc, and connected to my Mac. Forced Mac to start using the upgrade disc (hold on c while starting until the startup interface shows up). Format the removable disc to the same format with the Hard disc. Then restore the disc image from my Mac hard disc to the removable. You can choose erase destination while doing that. Then all my stuff were safe.

I reinstall Mac OS X 10.4 again. There was something interesting happened. I forgot to bring my second disc while reinstalling. Then I inserted the upgrade disc, and forced Mac to restarted again from the disc. And then I can upgrade my system to 10.5 and it worked. But I didn’t feel confident on doing so. Thus I did it allover again with both of the discs.

After installation, I insert Disk1->customize installation -> Choose to install X11. It is strange that, X11 won’t work if I just download the package and install it myself. I installed the Xcode come with my Mac, but I still couldn’t start root. I downloaded another Xcode, install it again with gcc4.0. I couldn’t remember if I installed any other packages in Xcode.

After all these, I can get root running, but I can’t get the convas out. :’(

Accidentally, it turned out that I should always run X11 first and then start the terminal run root. I don’t know why. But anyway, it worked, FINALLY!

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We went to the Wings for dinner yesterday and watched the first half NBA (Lakers vs. Celtics). It was fun. I haven’t seen much basketball since my high school while Micheal Jordan was the best at that time. I’m happy that Lakers won the game but I didn’t see much differences between the two teams. If Lakers couldn’t shoot better, it will be very hard for them to get to the champion.