[ppafford]

Originally Posted by Sword

Hi,

How do I use sudo if no user password is set? If I just hit return, it counts as a failed attempt?

Thanks - apologies if the answer is above somewhere, I did try to look :-)
Sword

You could try

sudo su

[Sword]

Originally Posted by ppafford

You could try

sudo su

Hi,

So that would be:

sudo su pmset hibernatemode 0 ???

I'll give it a go (apologies - TOTALLY new to macOS),
Sword

[HTH]

Originally Posted by HTH

You should be able to configure this on a per-keyboard basis (i.e. different defaults for your Bluetooth and USB keyboards) but Leopard does a bad job keeping this straight. I haven't checked or heard anything about Snow Leopard having better consistency with this. If all you use is the built-in keyboard and other Windows-designed keyboards, it should work perfectly.

I've recently acquired Apple's Bluetooth keyboard (Model A1314) and can report that, under Snow Leopard, the system is keeping the bindings straight on both keyboards with none of the problems I had under Leopard: Option and Command are right on the Bluetooth keyboard and Windows and Alt still give me Command and Option. Also, Apple's keyboard fits nicely on top of the built-in keyboard without blocking the track pad, resting in the hinge, sticking out only one key width per side, though it does deflect the audio from the built-in speakers. A nice long rubber band could help secure it if you walk around with it (find some gray ones).

The brightness adjustment buttons however don't work. If I had a drive attached maybe the Eject button would work, but I haven't tried it.

I'd like to convert the Eject button to a Power button so I can shut the system down easily from across the room.

[wookieecrisp]

What is throttling?

[DMBryant]

Originally Posted by Sword

Hi,

So that would be:

sudo su pmset hibernatemode 0 ???

I'll give it a go (apologies - TOTALLY new to macOS),
Sword

Just:

sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

[smockonallama]

Originally Posted by HTH

I've recently acquired Apple's Bluetooth keyboard (Model A1314) and can report that, under Snow Leopard, the system is keeping the bindings straight on both keyboards with none of the problems I had under Leopard: Option and Command are right on the Bluetooth keyboard and Windows and Alt still give me Command and Option. Also, Apple's keyboard fits nicely on top of the built-in keyboard without blocking the track pad, resting in the hinge, sticking out only one key width per side, though it does deflect the audio from the built-in speakers. A nice long rubber band could help secure it if you walk around with it (find some gray ones).

The brightness adjustment buttons however don't work. If I had a drive attached maybe the Eject button would work, but I haven't tried it.

I'd like to convert the Eject button to a Power button so I can shut the system down easily from across the room.

The keyboard shortcut to shutdown immediately is (Command+Option+Control+Eject). By the way if you have to apps waiting for you to save anything you would have to interact with those anyways. On a regular windows keyboard on a mac F12 is eject. On a mini 9 F12 is (fn+X).

[northstar7]

Hi. I don't know if this is of any interest. I didn't see it reported, but I might have missed it. If someone else discovered this, please excuse my posting.

I was following the guides to install Snow Leopard on a Dell Mini 9 and was planning to use the two-memory-stick approach. However, the 32GB flash drive I ordered was a long time arriving. So I decided to try to use a spare 120GB SATA USB drive I had lying around instead.

I used ImgBurn to create an .iso image from the Snow Leopard upgrade disk. I tried to use dd to burn it to the USB hard drive, but I got a permission error. Some googling revealed that should have used diskpart (if I were using a flash drive), do I just tried the same steps with the USB drive. Which are listed here: (DD.exe Access is denied on Windows 7).

After waiting around for those steps to finish I saw the HDD had no drive letter, but since I was using dd, all I needed was the correct drive number (1).

I followed the installation for large and small flash drive, using the HDD I prepared and everything installed beautifully in about 1/2 hour.

FYI.

Thanks

[H0lden Caulfield]

Has anyone had any experience fixing the "Battery not identified" issue? I'm running 10.6, brand new machine, but after the battery recently died it now gives me the above message when booting and will not charge the battery (also flashes amber and white).

Thanks

[PhilT]

Originally Posted by Sword

How do I use sudo if no user password is set?

you can't. MacOSX doesn't allow it and up to very recent versions it would just return to the command prompt without having done anything.

A recent bug fix means it now says "Sorry" and returns to the command prompt.

You have to set a password.

[markbullen]

I have installed 10.6 on my Mini 9 with success but I run into problems when I do 10.6.4 update using Software Update. All seems to go well with the download but after I get the "update installed successfully" message it reboots with a Dell netbook with X icon. After several minutes the netbook reboots and after the apple logo appears I get a screen full of code an a message in the centre that says I need to restart my computer. This just results in the same screen.

Any ideas?