Well actually, booting into 9 to fix things is rather limiting, since it
is hard to change file permissions, etc. from 9. BootCD gives you the
ability to boot into X and fix UNIX stuff from a UNIX based finder, etc.
Now if you are just deleting files and erasing disks to do re-installs,
then 9 is fine, but it gets old fast re-installing the whole thing just
to fix a few minor problems. (Kind of like booting into OS-7 to fix
OS-9, only more so).
Jerry
On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 09:36 AM, Ward Oldham wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> BootCD is cool but not really required since all Macs on the planet will
> boot with OS 9 or earlier. However, effective January, 2003, new Macs
> will
> no longer boot with anything but OS X. Then BootCD would have a need.
> However, I suspect that once Apple implements this change that they will
> probably release their own utility that will accomplish this.
>
> Ward Oldham
>
>
> on 10/11/2002 9:23 PM, Jerry Yeager at jerry at browseryshop.com wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it will be nice to finally break the 100 GB barrier in laptops.
>> Those paltry 10GB hard drives they typically came with don't seem to be
>> worth messing with these days because after loading all of the software
>> needed to be "mobile", there's no room left!!!
>>
>> ATTENTION THREAD-TRACKERS (CHANGE OT TOPIC COMING)
>>
>>
>> A useful utility that I have been watching and testing is finally
>> getting to the useful stage (it still has a few bugs in it, but I think
>> these are minor now)
>>
>> http://www.osx-zone.com/#boot
>>
>> The utility is named BootCD. Waht it allows you to do is create a
>> bootable OS-X CD --- very useful indeed if you need to fix a crashed
>> Mac.
>>
>>
>> Okay, BACK ON TO THE MAIN TOPIC again.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 08:25 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 02:51 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wonder if those >300gb drives will be high speed or not (7200 rpm
>>>> or
>>>> faster). If so, you could have a new video capable Mac with over a
>>>> terabyte of storage space (alas, it will require an OS upgrade to
>>>> access all of the drive space though). If not, these could make
>>>> network attached storage devices worth buying -- that one is a bit of
>>>> a stretch as it is cheaper to buy a computer with lots of drive space
>>>> and use it as a server.
>>>
>>> You could partition it into a couple of 120s and a tiny 60.
>>>
>>
>> I guess the 60 would be the spot to either put the OS or put the swap
>> file...
>>
>>> It's amazing how fast storage is changing.
>>>
>>> It won't be too long before 100+ GB drives are the norm. It wasn't too
>>> long ago that I installed an "enormous" 20 GB drive. Now I don't even
>>> look at the sale prices for drives under 60 GB. I just bought a new
>>> laptop with a 30 GB drive, and am a little annoyed that the hard drive
>>> is so small, but I console myself by knowing a 100 GB upgrade will
>>> probably be cheap by next summer.
>>>
>>> A DVD seemed like an enormous disk at one time. Now I copy them to my
>>> hard drive so I can return the disk to Blockbuster and watch the movie
>>> later.
>>>
>>
>> And soon we will have 4X DVD writers.
>>
>> I wonder if Moores' Law will be applied to the peripherals as well?
>> (Moore's Law: The processor power of computers will double from the
>> previous state every 18 months or so)
>>
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>>
>>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
>>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>
>
>
> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>
>
>
>
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
