New hardware
Dec. 15th, 2010 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewxI bought an OCZ SSD for my Mac.
Physical installation was trivial and moving the OS onto turned out to be pretty easy too: partition the disk with Disk Utility, copy the files (preserving all all attributes etc; I used a succession of rsync -xHEa commands), make sure mount points like /dev exist, and System Preferences > Startup Disk started to offer the new disk without any further intervention.
The main wrinkle was rsync hanging after copying /var; however diff revealed the three files it hadn’t copied and copying those manually wasn’t a problem. I don’t know what was going on here - conceivably the old disc is on the way out though if so it’s not shown up in any other way.
After rebooting onto the new disc the runtime linker complained (harmlessly) about its cache, which I regenerated with sudo update_dyld_shared_cache. Apart from that everything’s been working well, and in many cases noticeably faster.
I also bought a TP-Link USB wifi adapter. http://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta describes how to get it going on Debian; I was already on 2.6.32 on the relevant machine so the important bit was knowing to blacklist the rt2800usb driver. The aim of the exercise was to avoid stringing a cable across the living room.
(Actually I accidentally bought two, and haven’t figured out what to do with the spare yet. I suspect it’ll come in handy sometime…)
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