Well this has been an rough week for my poor iBook. Thursday night I was suppose to dj for COFE Radio, but whas trouble connecting to and holding the stream, so I ran a software up date, and when it was done did the required reboot… Well it decideded it did not want to reboot it just sat at the start up screen. Great just what I need, the iBook is my dj rig, it has all my dj software on it, if it is down, so am I. So I start hitting the forums, seems I am not the only one having trouble with this update. So I start going through all the normal repair procedures, and nothing is working. OK, so it looks like I have to do an archive and reinstall. not that big a thing…except I do not have the install disk for the version of OSX I am using..and my dj software has to have at least OS X.4. Great that leaves only one choice, I will have to upgrade to OS X.5, but $129.00 is cheaper than a new computer so yesterday I run to the Santan Village Apple store and pick up a copy and run home to do the a&i. There is just one problem….not enough disk space to do it!!! . OK, what to do now?
Well after som thinking..I remember I can run the system off an external drive, and I have a firewire housing, so I find a good size drive laying around, put in the housing, plug it in, format it and start the install…
Flash ahead 2 hours..ok 1 hour and 40 mins…I now have an OS on the external drive I reboot the iBook……………………..
YAY!! I have a live computer again, and my iBooks drive shows as an accessable drive, so now i can retreave my files.
SO now I am in the process of doing file recovery and getting my external iTunes library all nice and happy with the new iTunes. Once I get all that done, email working, iTunes all back and have my dj software installed and working.. I will clone the external drive, and restore it to my iBooks drive, I should then be back live! There are still some things I will need to install, but I should be able to dj again..as long as the inital problem I had that started all this, was a software problem and not an ISP one..but that is something I will have to wait a bit to find out.