Installing LEGO NXT-G 1.1 or 2.0 on mac OSX 10.6

[Justin_P]

What documentation do you need?  A lot of the documentation is online, like the LabVIEW 2009 LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Module Help and the LabVIEW LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT Module Programming Guide.

[TI1]

I need block wise documentation that will explain the configuration options. I rather have the options to access it directly from the NXT-G development IDE (the one that ships with the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Retail edition).

[Justin_P]

Sorry about that I thought that you were talking about the LabVIEW Toolkit for MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0.

[MichaelBiermann]

Screenshots...

I am able to use Mindstorms NXT on Macbook Pro, 10.6.5.

When I opened Mindstorms NXT for the first time, I got a "error pop-up" and I pressed cancel. Afterwards I got the error pop-up telling me to add a defect description. I clicked "restart" and Mindstorms NXT started w/o issues.

But each time I quit Mindstorms NXT, I get error pop-up.

When I open Mindstorms, no errors are shown.

[Fred_V]

Hi Michael,

I haven't seen this issue before. Do you have a standard setup of MacOS X? Could this issue be related a the NXT vi not having access to a folder or directory? 

Is anyone else seeing this issue?

[marsu211]

After extracting all the files from th CDRom that was not readable from my Macs, I finally got the HPFS partitin out.

Now I have followed your instructions but get following message at end of installation.

Thank you in advance for any support.

Best regards

Marsu

[Samuel_S]

Marsu211,

Has anyone else seen this? I found the compatible versions of LabVIEW here: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4435

If you do not have any of the above versions, you will have an opportunity to download an old version of LabVIEW upon downloading the toolkit.

Compatibility Note: You must have one of the following versions of LabVIEW installed to use the toolkit:

• For Windows: LabVIEW 7.1.x, 8.0, 8.2, 8.5.x, 8.6.x
• For Mac OS: LabVIEW 7.1, 8.0, 8.2, 8.5

[Joe4227]

BLAQmx,

I have the 2.0 and I got as far as the resources directory but found no "preflight" file.  Could if be called something else?  I used this software when I had a PC and now that I have a Mac it's not working. Very frustrating!

Any help would be great!

[VSVS]

Hi, I was trying to delete "preflight" as suggested and it is not allowing me and saying it can not be deleted. Wondering how you guys did? Help is appreciated.

Regards,

VSVS

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@bazmati wrote:

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BLAQmx wrote:

To install LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 1.1 on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

1. Copy all files from the MINDSTORMS CD to a folder on your desktop.  
2. Open that folder and look under "Parts".  
3. Locate MindstormsUnivEdu.pkg or MindstormsUnivRet.pkg.  
4. Right-click (control-click) and choose "Show Package Contents".  
5. Navigate into the Contents » Resources directory and delete the "preflight" file.  
6. Close this package and run the meta-package (LEGOMindstormsEngRet.mpkg) from the desktop to install MINDSTORMS NXT. 

To install LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

1. Copy all files from the MINDSTORMS CD to a folder on your desktop.  
2. Open that folder and look under "Parts".  
3. Locate MindstormsUnivEdu.pkg or MindstormsUnivRet.pkg.  
4. Right-click (control-click) and choose "Show Package Contents".  
5. Navigate into the Contents/Resources directory and delete the "preflight" file.  
6. Close this package and run the meta-package from the desktop to install MINDSTORMS NXT

Please let us know if these address all of your questions.  

Cheers,

Mark

LabVIEW R&D 

Message Edited by BLAQmx on 09-14-2009 11:17 AM

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Thanks Mark... i was not expecting a solution that easy and so soon -- i hereby confirm that i was able to install and use NXT-G 1.1 For LEGO Mindstorms on a fresh install of MAC OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard using the above procedure.

THANKS  i will now go update my blog with the good news 

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[VSVS]

Hi,

I tried to delete "Preflight" file and it is saying can not be deleted. Wondering how you guys did? Appreciate your help

Regards,

VsVs