New to the world of Droid. Can I root the droid 2 using a mac OS X. I have no experience with this so I'm very nervous. Just got the D2 this week but I want to be able to tether
YES. I rooted my Droid 2 using my MacBook Pro. It took a little trial and error but once I set everything up correctly it went without a hitch.
As I recall, the commands referenced in the XDA developers forum all worked great, but some of them required defined paths for some of the resources. Also, I seem to recall the need to set the Droid 2 to "Charge Only" after connecting the USB cable (not PC Mode).
The commands I used were these (BUT DON'T USE MY COMMANDS. JUST TO BE SURE, USE THE ONES FROM THE XDA FORUM.)
cd /tools/
/tools/adb devices
/tools/adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
/tools/adb push su /sdcard/su
/tools/adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
/tools/adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
/tools/adb shell
cd data/local/tmp
chmod 0755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
/tools/adb devices
/tools/adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
cp /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su
cp /sdcard/busybox /system/bin/busybox
chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
chmod 4755 /system/bin/busybox
mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
exit
exit
Good luck,
Dave