Install Squeezebox Server on Joggler

Followed instructions from here., putting the "stable beta" repo in to the Software Sources: deb http://debian.slimdevices.com.

In the end had to get the deb http://debian.slimdevices.com stable main package as it couldn't find anything to download.

Ran Synaptic Package Manager and after a fashion it showed Squeezeboxserver as a package. Installed, required many other things too (mysql and perl linkages in particular).

Then navigate to /192.168.1.69:9000/ and configured it! All going!

Now sudo apt-get install smbfs.
sudo mkdir /mnt/hub

Then edit /etc/fstab to have //192.168.1.253/Disk_a1 /mnt/hub smbfs guest 0 0.

Seems bthub as name doesn't work, and IP address of the disk is at 253, not the gateway address of 254.

Happily indexing the hub's drive!

Potential help on 10.5.8 upgrade

http://www.hutsby.net/2009/09/msi-wind-updating-to-1058-on.html

Basically looks like video drivers get hosed, so need to reinstall the kernel extensions.

Successful BIOS update to 1.0A

Followed instructions from Cantisque on July 4th 2008. Basically download HP's disk tool and win98 files from files.extremeoverclocking.com, and use the MSI 1.0A utility. But I actually used the Advent 1.0A BIOS file from my previous blog entry, by changing the .BAT file to refer to the Advent BIOS image not the MSI one.

Seems my BIOS 1.08 is the reason my page up and down keys don't work - but now they do go!

Update went smoothly, page up and down now work, thankfully. And Home and End.

Updating to 10.5.6

After much searching I found that the following article seems to be the best update path for 10.5.5->10.5.6.

http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/msiwindowsx86-iso-problems-all-updated-t6441-20.html

The biggest problem is that I would need a USB keyboard.

Eventually I figured I could use the on-screen keyboard (Preferences something), 

but when I did the update I lost the screen again, the old blue screen and mouse curson. It seems that is something a bit unique to my computer, and maybe one or two others. I revived my old advice put on forums.msiwind.net and here to use the terminal to fix the drivers - this time the kexts were already on the HDD though. But of course the keyboard had stopped working in the terminal too.

Eventually I found a USB keyboard and fixed the display drivers as before, then ran the package from the forums to fix the keyboard and trackpad. Weirdly, when I rebooted the Ctrl key was stuck down until I pressed it again - making clicking anything do weird things.

Failed attempt to update BIOS to 1.0A

Using the 1.0A file at:

http://support.thetechguys.com/4211BIOS

I used the technique here, but put on an SD card:

http://forums.msiwind.net/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5906

1. Prepare pendrive with working BIOS version. You only have to copy file with BIOS on your pendrive and change file extention to "rom". Nothing more. So if you have EN011IMS.109, rename it to EN011IMS.ROM.
2. Insert prepared pendrive in to USB port
3. Remove the battery and disconnect power cord.
4. Press and hold power button
5. Connect power cord.
6. Release power button.
7. Press power button twice
8. Press "Del" to enter BIOS setup
9. Go to "Recovery" tab
10. Select "Proceed with flash update" and press Enter
11. Update process will begin. DO NOT PRESS ANY KEY OR REMOVE POWER CORD!
12. After process is finished, press Enter and turn off your Wind (you can remove your power cord now).
13. Insert battery and connect power cord.
14. Start your Wind, go to BIOS setup and load default settings ("Load setup defaults"). Save and exit BIOS.

Unfortunately the BIOS doesn't seem to have the Recovery tab :-(

10.5.5 update woes

Now the Advent 4211 won't boot after accepting Apple's update patch from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5. It goes to a blue screen with a mouse cursor, but flashes back to a terminal window every 10s with sometimes an error message, mostly blank.

There is some info in this forum topic that suggests various kernel extensions (kexts) need to be reinstalled:

http://forums.msiwind.net/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3722&view=next

However, that is mainly for video display issues - seems that special MSI display kexts get nuked by the update. This one is for exactly my problem:

http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/blue-screen-after-update-t4018.html

I deleted AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext folder from /System/Library/Extensions because I found that it in this post, from Biohead (at the bottom of page):

http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/released-t3551.html

You have to make the disk writeable first:

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

The first one does a filesystem check, the second actually makes the disk writeable. I tried this several times but it didn't seem to work (using rm -r to remove the .kext directory) - turns out you need to 'exit' rather than just turn off the computer by holding down the power button for a long time. It must flush a cache then.

However, this didn't change anything.

Second post above seems to suggest downloading a pile of kernel extensions and installing over the ones that are there, after someone had the exact same problem as me. Also on this page, grantonstar also says to reinstall all kexts. Will track down what that means exactly!

The download is for a whole lot of kexts and other things required for a fresh install, and requires running kexthelper.app, which is clearly impossible. Looking for other ways, I figure I could just copy the kexts.

Need to mount the USB stick:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030714194313542

I am moving all the relevant kexts that are going to be replaced to /Users/michaelfielding/. Natit.kext and ACPIBattery.kext don't exist on the Advent yet.

Now I exit, and instead of going back to another terminal-like thing, it actually boots OS X! Hooray! And the right screen resolution too!