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Saturday, August 06, 2005
DVD burner

My iBook has no DVD read/write so I bought an external Sony DRX-800UL DVD/CD burner (USB and FireWire).
I used it to install MacOS X 10.4 which kept crashing every few minutes until I disabled Spotlight.

first modify /etc/hostconfig to read:

SPOTLIGHT=-NO-

Then to get rid of the existing index, run these two commands from Terminal:


mdutil -i off /
mdutil -E /

info from 10.4: Completely disable Spotlight