Snow Leopard install hassle
Well my Snow Leopard (SL) installation was traumatic, as I have a first generation Macbook Air it was as straight forward as sticking the disc in.
So I grabbed my windows laptop as it has the required DVD drive and installed the DVD share package so my macbook could use the drive for installing SL. I began running the installation but it came up saying i need to run disk utility to sort out my HDD. This is where the problems began.
The SL advised that I reboot my macbook holding down the ALT option button, then choose my wireless network and select the disk, effectively booking from the dvd. The problem was I could locate my wireless drive from the drop down of wireless networks.
I tried to get one to my wireless box but i’d forgotten my username and password, so i reset the wireless box, this threw my internet connection out as the static ip information was lost. What a fool! So I phoned up O2 to sort the connection out and the outcome was i have a strange wireless box that isnt their standard one, so they swtiched me to a dynamic IP that works for now and are sending me out a new wireless box… probably a result.
So once i get the box working again and disable WEP so my wireless is an open connection (I read this might be a problem for SL installs with macbook air) but it still doesnt appear in the list, so i have a brainwave and rename the network to a shorter name than the O2 default, horrah this work it now appears in the list. It took 2hrs to install SL and now its done i’ve recovered about 10 gig of HDD. So all in all a worthwhile hassle but a bit of a waste of a Saturday evening!