Music Kiosk Moved To Mac Mini


After four years, the CRT on the G3 500 MHz iMac across from the Circ Desk went South. I was using it for one of the music kiosks that run iTunes.

Luckily, we had some money in the computer budget to get a replacement. So I purchased a Mac Mini. We're just going to use some extra PC parts, i.e., keyboard, mouse, & monitor, to complete the package.

I used Mike Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner to get the old setup over to the Mac Mini. I first made two partitions, leaving 10.4.5 on one, then cloning over my 10.2.8 setup to the other partition.

The cloning procedure was a success, but it turns out, as I expected, the audio stuff didn't work. The hardware didn't even exist back in the days of Jaguar. The headphones weren't recognized, and the tracks wouldn't play. What to do? I decided to upgrade the kiosk to 10.4.5. I was worried that many things would be broken, but it wasn't so bad. I just had to go into the command line to rename the Dock and Spotlight, and everything else was fine. Except for the ugly monitor and keyboard, of course.

Posted: Sun - February 26, 2006 at 02:37 PM      

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