I'll give it a try but not right away. Mel
--- On Fri, 10/24/08, insightinmind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: insightinmind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Permissions Question, CCC 3.1.2 under Tiger & a few more Qs ... To: [email protected] Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 1:50 PM On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Mel wrote: I might try the XPostFacto 4 Help to 'fix' the problem - I.E. to see if it will allow an adaptec PCI card such as a 2940UB et al to enable me to boot from an external HD. Problem is I haven't the foggiest notion of how to use XPostFacto 4 Help. I've downloaded, printed and will study the following: Other World Computing: OS X for Legacy MacsEnabling the "Use PatchedRagePro" option in XPF can help. .... XPostFacto 4 will run in Mac OS 9.x or Mac OS X 10.2 through 10.4, but it will only install ... eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page= XPostFacto.html Mel If your setup is working, you might just leave it alone ... you might also ask around if Xpostfacto is designed to work on machines after the PCI Graphics Yikes! It was originally designed mostly for legacy Macs like the 8500, 9500 and Beige. Macs that were "all PCI" I might generalize. But, if you're like me, you'll put in the old cards and try. I had a working copy of my OS X on one internal disk that is bootable. That is the one to indicate as the Helper in the Xpostfacto window. Once you have your PCI Cards installed and hard drives connected, along with a bootable version of your OS X on both internal and external drives, just run Xpostfacto 4 from that partition, select the OS X you want to boot from on your external drive, also in the Xpostfacto 4 window, check to see if the Helper disk containing the bootable OS X, is selected as well, and just hit Restart. I'm not sure if you can mix OSs: like go from Helper Tiger into SCSI Panther ... but maybe? Unless I missed something ... It's pretty much that simple. SCSI might offer an additional challenge, but if it works like the FW/USB connected hard drives, it should be pretty much that simple. Since my Helper disk sounds like a SCSI drive, I can hear it working, and hear / see when it switches to the more quiet FW drive to continue booting from my external drive. Pretty seamless transition. Good luck. Bill Connellyartsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudiomyspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
