Monthly Archives: August 2009

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I was getting this message:”Mac OS X cannot be installed on “silver”, because this disk cannot be used to start up your computer.”
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The problem turns out to be that the Mac OS really wants 128MB of unused space after your main Mac OS partition.
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So at some point the system installed new, nicely gzipped man pages but somehow failed to remove the old ones. And it turns out the man give the non-gzipped version precedence. Giving me old out of date documentation when I ask for it. Weak.
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I had about 4500 that I was able to delete, and now my ls and chmod man pages have up-to-date info again. Aaaahhhhh. Continue reading →