yordan

What news?

Please tell us! Were you successful cloning the Operating System from your "legacy" hard drive to your new SSD drive? Did the laptop boot from the SSD ?

OK, the problem is that currently running OS does not accept erasing himself...

And you cannot boot of the installation CD because you removed the CD reader.

The thing you want to do is to clone your hard-drive MacOs to your SSD disk.

You can do this with the disk utility, but of course you have to do some preliminary tasks before that.

I found a nice tutorial,

how to clone your hard hard disk to a SSD - Mac

Unfortunately it's a french document, if you don't feel comfortable with french texts google an English version.

Roughly, you first resize the current MacOs partition to make it smaller than your SSD disk.

Then you boot on the off the recovery HD partition and you start the disk recovery program, you choose restore, as source volume you choose the current internal disk and as destination volume the new SSD.

Here below a google translation of the link I mentionned :

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2. From Mac OS, open the Disk Utility application

3. In the left column containing the list of disks, select your hard disk

4. Click the Partition tab

5. Resize your Mac partition to the same size or smaller than your new SSD (example: if your original drive is 512 GB in size and your SSD is 256 GB in size, you will need to resize your original partition to 256 GB)


    at. Drag the resize slider to the desired size and click Apply
    b. If your new SSD is the same size or larger capacity than your original drive, you do not need to resize it

6. Shut down your Mac and reboot to the Recovery HD backup partition (Lion or higher) or from the operating system installation CD (Snow Leopard or higher)
    at. At startup, hold down the "Option" key to access the boot manager
    b. Select "Recovery-10.x" or the installation CD

7. Choose your language

8. Select Disk Utility

9. Choose the boot disk from the Disk Utility list of devices

10. Click on the "Restore" tab

 

11. Click the source volume (the line below the source disk) and drag it into the Source field if it does not appear in the Source field.

 

12. Click the destination volume (the line below the one showing the SSD) and drag it into the Destination field.


13. Tick "Clear destination" if the option is present (in version 10.8.2, it is checked by default)

14. Click "Restore".

 

Once cloning is complete, you must then make sure that it has been correctly completed. Here is the procedure to follow :

1. Restart your Mac

Hope this helps....

Regards

Yordan

Hi, Becca,

Congrats, now we see that the LIUSSD hardware is installed and is usable, and macOS Sierra want to install. Before doing this, did you backup all your personal files ? Just in case?

OK, please tell us if you were successful!

It' supposed not to be dangerous if you don't wear it in your pocket, and if you use headphones in order not to put the mobile near to your head!

Wow! I googled this. Looks pretty nice!

On 12/03/2018 at 10:39 AM, Becca said:

Oh yeah I never thought about that you are so right!!!! I'm glad I asked. I can set up myself which disk to boot can't I? SO It doesnt matter that I've placed it in the cd area. Thanks Yordan! 

Ouch! Seems that you have rather few experience with macbook hardware. So, please, don't do it by yourself, find a fried who knows what he does, or forget about adding the disk!

This should not add so much weight : you remove the CD and replace it's weight by the SSD. So, having two disks will incredibly speed up your macbook, this will widely compensate the effort of manipulating a HEAVY computer!

I would suggest you to try the "Fix GRUB2" section in the document below :

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/dual-boot-windows-7-centos-7.html

Optionally, you can even choose on which OS your system will boot as described in

https://pario.no/2014/10/28/change-default-grub-startup-in-centos-7/

Regards

Yordan

A (decent) camera. It does not have to be digital, although in this day and age, it is the best way to go. And if you still are learning the basics, you should not be using a complex and expensive camera until you at least get the basics down

Of course, you should also consider that a lot of people talk about photography while thinking about using the camera tool of your smarphone

Hello everybody.

Do you plan games on your phone ?

I love playing free games on android. Which one is your favourite one ?

5 hours ago, OlenFri said:

Personally, I'm waiting for the mobile version of Runescape before going back to the game. If that sucks, I'll probably go back to the original game.

 

You are right, Runescape on mobile seems to be available soon, as stated for example here :

https://www.runescape.com/info/mobile

Oh yeah,  my images are back, my step-by-step tuto is readable again!

Did you try to boot from the Fedora install disk, as far as I remember there is a menu repairing the boot problems.

Great idea.

With pleasure!

4 minutes ago, tritesh said:

suffering Ignorance syndrome spread through this forum.

I also have a similar problem. I will try to solve it, concentrating my ignorance syndrome on a specific topic.

On 05/10/2010 at 6:17 AM, rpgsearcherz said:

 whereas on *nix if you are missing a dependent program it is automatically installed. That has nothing to do with commercial vs. free. It has to do with usability.

Not so sure that it is automatically installed. Very often, when installing a linux program, I received "cannot be installed because prerequisite blahblahblah has to be installed first", or "conflicting with installed blahblahxxxx".

Of course, this depends from the installed Linux distro and the skills of the guy who installed the needed addons, but I feel it often painful when I want to install something for gaming or working purposes on a Linux computer.

And remember, all trap17 posts are still here, nothing disapeared when moving to our new name!

1 hour ago, spencertully said:

find a professional writer who will create an inspiring and cheerful text for your girlfriend. Words can heal the soul.

Don't you think it's cheating ? This is precisely the situation where you should find your own words. Even saying "sorry, I have no word" is better than paying somebody else expressing your feelings.

Of course, this is a rather old issue, the current version is 57. However, keeping your browser up-to-date is still a good idea.

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I'm a Nikon guy, but if you already have a 450D, and associated Canon lenses and accessories, why not stick with Canon?

Nicely said. A real Canon user can feel no real reason to switch to Nikon.

1 hour ago, rvalkass said:

Hello all  I still take a look around every once in a while, just to see what's going on.

Hi, nice to see you here

Of course, if it's in your own home, it's different, with your children you act exactly as you decide.

However, you asked the question about

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all employees browsing details

This is a different question, you have to consider your employee's rights toward their browsing freedom during working hours.

OK, I see two different points in your question.

First of all, you should check the legal things about this. For instance, in some countries, this kind of behavior is completely forbidden.

Secondly the technical point. Are you the owner of this network? The, for security reasons, you must have a firewall on top of your network.

If you are the owner of this network, you have access to the firewall logs. Of course you are not supposed to read them. However, you have to know that the firewall logs records each connection to the internet. The computer which initiated the connection, the name of the visited website, and the connection time.

Is this the info you needed?

Yeah.... wow, a long article too heh heh. Very thorough though I have to admit.It certainly looks like all of your'e posts are quite large, unrolling is what I would call it, just explaining a shorter thing in more detail or adding little bits and pieces that are relevant. 

This could be true. However, there are also moderators around here. And saying short things with a lot of useless words could also be seen as pure spam, and the correspond posts would be deleted.

So, the trick is simple : explain precisely what you want to say, using correct English sentences, the goal of the whole thing being to give information useful for other people around here.