David M. Ensteness wrote: > Interesting. > > On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 05:01 PM, Martin A. Totusek wrote: > > >>Re: Is a "Mac OS X (Jaguar) Lite" possible? Gene Steinberg says no >> >>Of course, without a real actual "Mac OS X (Jaguar) Lite", many utility >>programs won't ever be able to be run off an OS X "Jaguar" (or later) >>bootable CD-ROMs on any Power Macintosh, whether officially >>"supported" or not by APPLE. > > > Actually I spoke to the developers of DiskWarrior yesterday about > DiskWarrior 3. The great delay for this version update has been that > Alsoft wanted DiskWarrior to boot Mac OS X from the CD ROM, this will > also be necessary after January. Apple has worked with them to develop > a method for creating bootable Mac OS X CD ROMs that will work much as > Classic Mac OS CD ROMs have worked in the past. This demonstrates that > such a thing as a bootable Mac OS X CD is possible and will be seen > soon.
Ahem...yes, bootable OSX CD's exist, and have since the advent of the OS...after all...what do you think the installer disk is? :-/ The trick is cramming enough of Aqua and the Cocoa libs into a bootable CD that will allow programs to run, or writing these programs to a subset of Aqua and Cocoa...I mean, I could put a pretty complete Unix onto a bootable CD...heck people cram kernels and enough to bootstrap Unix to a full install on *floppies*. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
