iBook problems

[viperice]

Hi,

I have got a iBook reciantly. I submited a thread in here about it loging me off or i think hanging (the curser moves but nothing responds) if the screen goes to sleep or the machine goes to sleep. But i have just had the same problem except it has reset all the icons on the bottom bar (dunno what its called!) and lost all my settings for apps etc. (my desktop icons are still there though). And lots of things seem not right, i have no experiance with macs but i can tell somethings up!

Should I rebuild the iBook? And if so is that easy? Was reading about needing special partitions sizes or something.

Thanks,

Ben.

 

[symphonix]

I'd go ahead and reinstall Mac OS X. It sounds like whoever had the iBook prior to you really messed with the system. Its a pretty easy task, just insert the install CD, power up the machine while holding "C" to boot from CD, than follow the instructions. You do not need to worry about partition sizes at all - whoever told you this is probably thinking of Linux (up until recently, Linux used to require a lot of fiddling with partitions to get setup).

 

[viperice]

I have alot of Linux experiance. i started with the simple install of redhat etc. Now all i use is Gentoo and compile the entire OS myself and run no GUI on my systems. Im currently running 2 Gentoo servers. I read on a forum that Mac OS X needed a partition smaller than a certain size. Maybe this wasn't OS X but a pervious one. Also the iBook was brand new, would anyone of fiddled with it? i will rebuild it, i just wanted to make sure that it would be an easy task

Thanks.

 

[nixgeek]

The "under 8 gigabytes" requirement is for the older Macs like the beige G3 towers. Since it's an iBook, you should be fine using the entire hard drive space unless you need to partition for your own purposes.