New Install Questions

Hey folks... I'm looking for some idea's on my new install (system spec's are in my sig).
I have done some basic playing with the system and it's pretty nice so far. I do have a couple of complaints ( hot hot hot) but mostly I'm dig'n the system.
1) Add Fans... this system is hot, and I'd like to add a/some fans to it for improved airflow. Has anyone done this? I'd like some idea's on how to add more fans. (at least 1 80mm fan would be a great improvement I think). Or any other good idea's on lowering the system/cpu temp (and I did remove the stuff on the heatsink and put on some good AS5... but I didn't lap the heatsink)
2) Sound/Video capture. Here's what I have right now: Dish-network DVR, Mega 180 (with Logitec 5.1 speakers) and a TV. I would like to be able to watch Satellite TV and have the sound (surround sound) come through the 180. Not 100% sure how to do it right now.
And if I add a Capture card, is it just better to go out and get a upgraded video card & capture card (will most likely NOT be playing games on this system, and if we do they won't be high end frame monsters)? Either way, got suggestions?

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by "reversing of SYS and CPU fans" you mean just flipping them on the heatsink as to change the direction of airflow?
YES
THANKS
One word of caution. People have claimed that reversing the fans has only worked in systems that did not have a separate video card in the AGP or PCI slots as they restrict air flow thus making the heat related problem worse than it was to begin with.

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It should've been plainly obvious, as this would've generated a lot of output with these two groups packages being installed over to those partitions you'd created.
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-- edit below --
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How do perform a new install of iTunes on C drive, but locate the library on a second internal drive?

I realize this topic has been kind of beat to death, but I'm not finding exactly the information I'm searching for. There is a lot of information about splitting libraries, but I want to do a new install, and have my media located on a separate drive, with nothing but the software on the C drive.
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I just bought the Time Capsule and am in the process of backing up my files via Time Machine.
I want to then reformat my hd and do a clean install of leopard and applications. My question is, once I format/reinstall, can I pull specific files and settings from the TM image to my new install?
After reinstalling all of my software and files, I am going to create a new image. This is probably a simple question but i've never used it... thanks!

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Yes, you can restore user files from TM after an erase and install.
When you reboot from the install, migration assistant will come up, and you can restore user files.
However, if you think there's some corruption, (this is my recommendation) use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone the full hard drive, to both be sure you have a full working backup, and that you can manually restore EVERY file you need.
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How to re install illustrator I had to reset my PC and new install is needed (web download version)

Well that´s my question: How to re install illustrator I had to reset my PC and new install is needed (web download version)
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Free download, and install question.
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From the MSI you have to create a MST (Transforms). In the MST create now the new property INSTALLDIR=F:\, where F: is your USB-drive. If you use then the command
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Transferring drivers over to new install

Hi!
I'm a recent switcher (5 months), and since I've moved to OS X, I've installed, and subsequently uninstalled, untold piles of crap. Therefore I've decided that together with the external enclosure I'm getting for one of my hard drives, I'm going to do a fresh install.
However, my printer isn't supported my OS X. To get it to work, I had to install Xcode and use the Terminal to run some sort of Linux driver.
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Do you know where (all) the file(s)
are?
> That's what I want to know. Where are drivers kept?
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You really have to look at the source code package to determine where files will be installed when you do your own compiling. The usual install directories are /usr or /usr/local. It should be noted that you may have changed the default location when you built the driver.
I took a short look at the source code. Running a "./configure --help" includes the following --By default, `make install' will install all the files in`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc. You can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix', for instance `--prefix=$HOME'.After a quick "./configure" and "make" followed by a "make -n install", it appears that files were installed in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/man/man1. I didn't do a full make install and check for all the files that would be installed and I may have missed other files that were installed somewhere in the /usr/local tree. There may well have been more than one file placed in each of the directories such as /usr/local and /usr/local/lib.
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For a complete new install, do I have to install Leopard 1st, then Snow?

Ok, now Snow is out, I want to reinstall from scratch, do I have to install leopard 1st (my iMac came with it pre installed and have disks) or can I just use the Snow Leopard DVD to install from scratch
I have backed up what I want , ie iTunes, videos, docs, and want to do a brand new install from scratch.
cheers

Ok, so I can just do a complete fresh install of Snow, I'm not bothered about archive or anything, just a fresh copy of Snow, as if it came pre-installed from Apple factory.
I dont have a Time Machine backup yet, as I all I need for backup is iTunes Library, Videos, photos, everything else I'm not bothered about. So I take it can just manually copy these to my iMac after fresh install of Snow?
Also another question....I have a Intel iMac, bought Xmas 2007, spec wise It:
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Do you think Snow will speed up my system, as now its a "bit old". It was the lowest spec when I bought it in the range (added another 1Gb RAM) but it was my 1st Mac ever, and all I could afford
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[Solved] Grub Error 15 at boot on new install.

So I was trying to avoid asking for help, but I honestly can't see what's wrong with my new install of arch. I followed the beginner's guide all the way up to the part where you reboot and remove the liveCD. It all went swimmingly until I rebooted and got:
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB Loading, please wait...
Error 15
I don't know what's going on. Error 15 is supposedly "file not found," but I don't know what file it's looking for since I have a grub.cfg that I created from the steps posted on the guide. Any help is greatly appreciated.
--Wes
EDIT:
Just to be clear I followed the BIOS motherboard steps for GRUB.
Last edited by Wesman26 (2012-11-09 01:25:38)

Xacky wrote:Which instructions did you follow? This would normaly do it when chrooted (during install).
Wat your disk en partition lay-out?
-One or more harddisks?
-Partitions? Everything on / or separate /home /boot (/var)?
I'm following the beginner's guide instructions for a BIOS install. After chroot I used the following:
# pacman -S grub-bios
# grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --force --debug /dev/sdb
# cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
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DSpider wrote:Lol... a full reinstall wasn't needed. This mentality is typical to a Windows user.
I don't appreciate your condescension. These forums have (up to this point) always been really helpful and friendly to me; just because I'm posting in the newbie corner doesn't mean I'm not familiar with linux, and even if I were unfamiliar with linux I would hope that you could show more respect and compassion for someone who needs help than to ostracize them and laugh about their problem. I posted here because I figured I didn't need to waste the time of the mods and users who offer help in the installation subforum with something that I assumed would be a trivial fix. I expected courteous, thoughtful responses. I was apparently wrong to assume.
I reinstalled because I didn't know what else to do, and figured that there might have been a chance that I made a mistake. Since your previous advice was literally getting me nowhere I figured the 10 minutes of my time reinstalling took up would be worth the potential of fixing my problem.
To answer your questions that are actually helpful:
I don't have grub installed on another drive and my drive and partition layout is detailed above. As for boot priority, it hasn't changed since I first installed linux in 2006 and it's worked ever since; I'm performing this operation to clear what was once a drive cluttered with a few other distros that I've abandoned since 2007 when I found Arch (yes I am actually that lazy).
Is it possible that my old installation of grub might have stayed on the drive even after I rid it of the old partitions (since it's stored in MBR)? If so does the installation of grub2 I'm performing not get rid of it?
Hope this helps,
--Wes
Last edited by Wesman26 (2012-11-08 20:53:27)

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