On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 07:02 AM, Aughenbaugh, W wrote: > snip Will S wrote, > 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. >
Thanks WA, I guess I'm just obsessive. I'm sure of that being a chemist by trade I like to check everything one last time to make sure I don't blow my a** off in the lab. Eric -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
