On Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:30 AM, Eric J. Leopold responded to Will Schou:
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Will Schou wrote: snip > Did my last install of OSX on Sept 27,2002 > this is the longest I've gone between new installs. I've ran OSX for > over 2 years and used to do a new install every few days it seemed. I > am now using OSX Jaguar as my main OS for over a month and liking it a > lot. OS 10.2.2 runs great boots faster and no problems yet except Toast > crashed when I tried to burn a CD but it may have been the file I tried > to burn not sure yet. Best of luck. Will S > Thanks Will. A new install every few days? Now I don't feel bad. After every install of OS X so far, I've used Nortons 6 and found many errors. OS X doesn't stay error free for long though and Nortons always finds something sour. So far the evidence doesn't point to a very stable marriage of my 2 S900's and this cat Jaguar. Both machines have 1 GB ram, 40 GB IBM HD, Sonnet G4 400 & 450 MHz cards, Sonnet ATA 66 PCI, Twin Turbo video cards; nothing really exotic. The latest install loads OK but the other S900 boots into X first with white and grey strips but after that it loads OK. Eric Hi Eric, I wouldn't be too concerned with Norton complaining about X. My experience has been (with Classic MacOS back to 7.x) that Norton Disk Doctor (formerly CPS) always finds something to complain about. I usually run Norton DD, let it fix bundle bits, creations dates, etc. and then run it again. That is the ONLY time you will see Norton run error free. The only errors I really worry about are resource fork errors (which Norton can't fix) and directory and sector type errors (which it USUALLY can fix). If you run Norton DD on the OS install CD from Apple's retail versions, Norton will report bundle bit kinds of errors. Interestingly, if you copy files from your freshly repaired HD to a CD, Norton DD will report these same kinds of errors on the CD. If you care about that sort of thing, you have to create a partition, copy your files to it, run Norton DD on that partitions, THEN burn your CD. Given that NDD isn't really 'made for X', (nor is DiskWarrior), it's hard to get excited about the minor errors. I would tend to trust DiskWarrior more for directory repair, although to be safest, one should run Apple's Disk First Aid, then DiskWarrior, and finally NDD. I typically try to do this every 3 or 4 months, given a small number of crashes, and any time the machine seems to be unstable. If Jaguar or 10.1.x includes fsck, it might be worth while determining if it works with AFS. fsck is the unix file system checker, but it may not have been updated to check Apple's file system. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
