I've been using Mac's for over 10 years and I've become very familliar at understanding the booting process, the external disk drive, the extentions folder, holding the shift key to desactivate the extension when you boot your system, etc... all what you need if you want to fix a problem on your Mac.
Now with OS X all of this is gone down the drain. Don't get me wrong, I love OS X (I've been using it for 4 to 5 months) and I won't go back to OS 9. But the fact is, if you have a problem with OS X most of us are stuck. You can't just copy the System folder, neither the system file. When you install a program or a driver, I just don't know anymore where all the files goes. (Which folder). So if I want to remove it, I just don't know what to remove. Can I prevent the extensions from loading if I have a problem? How do I force the booting to start from an external disk drive rather the internal drive? Most disk utilities are useless. The disk utilities from Apple or SystemWorks (Norton utilities) or Drive 10 don't do much if you have a problem. I recently got a problem when I ran the second October update from ATI for my Radeon 7000 video card. Since then the computer just won't boot from my internal drive. No matter what I tried, it makes no difference. When I start, after a few minutes, I have a broken system folder on the screen and it just stays there. Thank God I have an external SCSI drive from which I can boot and run all the disk utlities but all of them tells me that everything is find. I can access all the OS X files and my personnal files on my internal disk but I still can't boot anymore from it. It's frustating because I just don't know what to do! Any suggestions? Pierre -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:g-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:g-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:g-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
