Re: New addition to my tool kit...

2011-04-03 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 01/04/11 7:35 PM, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/04/01 15:57, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 1, 2011, at 2:40 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: On Apr 1, 4:37 pm, Bruce Johnsonjohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: ...something everyone who works with computers should have in their

How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread John Martz
Last night I booted my friends 800 MHz eMac in target disk mode, connected it to my MacBook, and used Carbon Copy Cloner to backup her hard drive to an external drive. This went OK albeit EXTREMELY slowly. (Time elapsed: 01:52:45. Data copied: 8.43 GB i.e. ~1.25 MB/s (~1.19 MiB/s) ???) When I

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 3, 2011, at 9:30 AM, John Martz wrote: I'd like to look at the system log, but I don't know how to navigate to it and display it. In Finder select Go to Folder. Enter : /Volumes/Name of drive as it appears in finder/private/var/log Double-click on 'system.log' there to open it in

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Chance Reecher
You can get to the log folder on a Mac OS system drive by using Finder's Go command. Type in /Volumes/Name of drive/private/var/log and it will open the log folder, where you can then open the system log file in TextEdit. Chance On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM, John Martz zjo...@gmail.com

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: In Finder select Go to Folder. /Volumes/Name of drive as it appears in finder/private/var/log Double-click on 'system.log' there to open it in Console. Thanks Bruce. That's certainly a lot easier to do than

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 3, 2011, at 10:52 AM, iJohn wrote: This is for OS X 10.3.9 running on an 800 MHz eMac. The system seems to boot fine when booted from the internal hard drive. But it hangs when I attempt to boot from a CCC bootable copy of the hard drive on a firewire attached external drive. did you

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Apr 3, 2011, at 10:52 AM, iJohn wrote: This is for OS X 10.3.9 running on an 800 MHz eMac. The system seems to boot fine when booted from the internal hard drive. But it hangs when I attempt to boot from a

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 3, 2011, at 11:43 AM, iJohn wrote: HOWEVER, it looks as though the hang occurs just when the startup process is attempting to kick off a some program from Norton Utilities. I'm tempted to just trash anything with Norton in the title in the Applications folder. Nortons?? Delete this

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Nortons?? Delete this with extreme prejudice. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) While googling about for info on SymDCInit, I found the

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Clark Martin
On Apr 3, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 3, 2011, at 11:43 AM, iJohn wrote: HOWEVER, it looks as though the hang occurs just when the startup process is attempting to kick off a some program from Norton Utilities. I'm tempted to just trash anything with Norton in the