Updating Muscovy to 10.7

[Thijs Alkemade]

Great news, thanks a lot Evan!

Thijs

On 21 mei 2012, at 22:29, Evan D. Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:

> I took the much less technically satisfying but simpler route and talked to Damien at Network Redux today. :)  I suggested that he mail the Mac Mini to me and I'd take care of the upgrade; he counter suggested that he could have one of the engineers perform the upgrade for us. Sold.
> 
> -Evan
> On Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Evan Kinney wrote:
> 
>> Okay, so this *would* have worked fine, except for that little bit I forgot where there's no way to get EFI to use a static IP for TFTP without hacking your way into the EFI shell with rEFIt or something.
>> 
>> Then I was just going to resize the root partition so I could stick the image there and reboot… but then I remembered that you couldn't non-destructively resize HFS+ until 10.6.
>> 
>> So, yeah. Here we are. Any other ideas? I'm nowhere near Portland. :)
>> 
>> I did have another idea, though. VMware's free version of ESXi supports OS X as a guest as of v5. I have it running in production at work on some Xserves to host build nodes. I've never tried running it on a Mini, though. All the drivers seem to be there to support everything. I have a 2,1 model laying around somewhere, I'm sure; I'll see what I can make happen. Considering the lack of console access to the hardware, I'd think this would be a pretty good solution for platforms that are just kept around for regression testing and whatnot.
>> 
>> On the other hand, Raritan makes a 0U dongle-ish 1 port IP KVM for around $400. I'd offer to donate one of the Avocent DSR2035s I have laying around, but they're 1U and have 48 ports, heh.
>> 
>> /ek
>> 
>> On May 17, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>> 
>>> Evan,
>>> 
>>> I approve of your naming!
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your awesome debugging work with the 1.5b1 10.6 dependency issues.
>>> 
>>> If you'll please email me your public key I'll get you added for access to Smew. Muscovy's not running server, though if that would be helpful for this and other purposes we can certainly upgrade it, no problem.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Evan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 17, 2012, at 7:08 AM, Evan Kinney <Evan.Kinney at sas.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have a NetBoot image I created a while ago that will do an in-place upgrade of 10.5 to 10.6.8 through a bit of hackery and magic with OSUpgrade.pkg.
>>>> 
>>>> Is Muscovy running Server? It's fine if it's not; I have a NetBoot setup I can use at my house if need be. "bless" has a handy --netboot option that lets you point to any ABDP server and not rely on multicast discovery. That + --nextonly == unattended upgrade.
>>>> 
>>>> Also, I don't think I ever properly introduced myself: hi, I'm Evan.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> On May 16, 2012, at 4:17 PM, "Evan Schoenberg" <evan at adium.im> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Agreed. I would however like to have access to a share 10.6 testing device; smew is useless to us on 10.5.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Evan
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On May 16, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Colin Barrett <colin at springsandstruts.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Not up to date on what y'all have tried but switching to 10.6 seems like an absolute last resort. I mean, 10.8 will come out one day, and Xcode 3 isn't going to be viable to build 10.7/10.8 apps. Gotta figure this stuff out at some point, eh?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Colin (via thumbs)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 16, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Thijs Alkemade <thijsalkemade at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The dependencies for Adium 1.5.1b1 were pretty screwed up. IRC was
>>>>>>> broken because of what I can only pin down to not doing a clean build,
>>>>>>> libintl apparently has a problem with building for 10.6 on 10.7 with
>>>>>>> Xcode 4.3 [1].
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In short, it is pretty much required to do a full clean build every
>>>>>>> time and it seems every new release of Xcode breaks something else. I
>>>>>>> think it would be a lot safer to go back to Xcode 3 on 10.6.8 (as long
>>>>>>> as 10.6.8 is our target), so we always have the same compiler and
>>>>>>> SDKs. I have an old Macbook which is still on 10.6.8, but it's in
>>>>>>> pretty bad shape. So I'd much rather have one of the build machines
>>>>>>> build the dependencies, but that would need a machine with 10.6.8 (and
>>>>>>> we now only have Smew on 10.5.8 and Muscovy on 10.7.4). Maybe this
>>>>>>> will also make it easy to distribute the dSYMs.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Adrian says Smew can't be upgraded remotely. Is there another way?
>>>>>>> Could someone visit the datacenter? Can we ask NetworkRedux?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Thijs
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [1] http://trac.adium.im/ticket/15996#comment:16
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Adrian Godoroja <robotive at me.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately i didn't find any way of install Snow Leopard remotely.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> - Adrian.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Apr 06, 2012, at 17:26, Adrian Godoroja wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> does anybody has around a licensed Snow Leopard disc?
>>>>>>>> I'd appreciate if somebody could copy a SL dmg to the Muscovy, so i can try
>>>>>>>> and install it on Smew.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Adrian.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Apr 06, 2012, at 14:57, Evan D. Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Go for it on both counts! Upgrade was completed successfully.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>> Evan
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Friday, April 6, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Adrian Godoroja wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi Evan,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> thats great news. Will you also update Xcode, etc. or can i take care of the
>>>>>>>> rest of the stuff?
>>>>>>>> Also, are there any plans to update Smew to 10.6?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Adrian.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Apr 06, 2012, at 00:49, Evan D. Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'm running an unattended installation to update muscovy to 10.7. The
>>>>>>>> machine will be down for an hour or so while that does its thing.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -Evan
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