>I've never had much luck getting my S900/XLR8 G3 to boot off CDs.
>When it recently refused to boot from the HD and took several hours
>fiddling with the SCSI chain before it would run again (and I still
>haven't got a clue what I did that worked) I got thinking I really
>ought to have a boot/repair CD that would get it going, but the old
>Supermac CD won't work anymore with the G3 inside, and I don't seem
>to have any system CDs that will probably because they are all 3rd
>hand or borrowed and meant for other Macs. I tried paring down the
>system I am using, but I can't seem to get it small enough to get on
>a CD and still work -when I start paring it down I seem to throw out
>essentials, without any way to know what they are. Any suggestions?
Emergency/diagnostic boot cd's are fairly easy to make - I have my
drive set up as three partitions, one is the startup drive with the big
system (9.1) folder(475MB) and the utilities, one is where all my apps
reside and the third contains a bare system 9.1(140MB) and also an
installed copy of all the utilities I use like DiskWarrior,TechTool and
Norton Utilities - I say installed because the extensions and preferences
for these have to be in the bare system folder or they won't work. I got
the tip from Rob - anyone remember Rob?
A bare system can get along without all the ColorSync profiles
except for the one for your particular monitor,all the print drivers,all
the modem scripts,all the voice and speech,all the guides and help,all
the s/w update,all the 3D Rave,all the USB drivers - unless you want
them,all the file sharing,location,multiple users,internet and
Java,desktop knicknacks like control strip and launcher,desktop pics -
the list is quite long.
Once the bare system folder has been 'blessed' - taken out onto the
desktop and put back again - an emergency/diag boot cd is a simple copy
of this third drive partition written as a bootable.
Every month or so I use the utilities on the big system partition to
rebuild the directories/defrag the other two partitions - then startup
from the bare system partition to do the big system partition. If I have
problems I can startup from the bootable cd I made of the bare system
partition and use the utilities on that.
Pete in the UK
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