On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 06:26 AM, Bailey wrote:
> What do you mean ? An OS X that boots from a CD ?
>
> -Ford
>
> On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 09:52 PM, Will Schoumaker wrote:
>
>> I just screwed up my OSX by trying to
>> make an OSX CD with utilities on it that will boot using "bootcd"
>> later
>> Will
>> PS my guess is it can't be done on an old World machine but not sure
>> yet.
I'd like to be able to make a CD with some repair utilities on it that
I could just stick in the cd player and then reboot from within OSX and
have it boot up. "bootcd" is said to be able to do this. In fact that
is what it's made to do. It is said to be the only way to make a OSX cd
that books into OSX with a finder and Dock which lets you run apps in
OSX. It is getting raves by Ted Landau of Macfixit fame. It makes a 650
mb disk image on your OSX drive and then finds and makes an OSX startup
file in this disk image that will work on your machine. It then lets
you choose what apps you want to include on the disk. The system files
take up apox 300mb but still gives you 350mb of room for emergency
repair stuff etc. You then burn the disk Image using Disk Copy. Sounds
great(in fact to good to be true) but I don't think it will work with
old World Macs. It froze on me after making the disk Image but I force
stopped it and burned the disk. At this [point I noticed my OS9 hard
drive had disappeared. I went ahead and tried to boot the new CD and it
not only wouldn't boot it messed up the NVRAM the worse ever in over 2
years of running OSX! Even unplugging the machine and removing the
battery trick didn't work. I had to unplug all hard drives and lucky
for me my External Yamaha CDRW will boot a Mac OS. i was then able to
hook up the OS 9 drive which I though had died because it was so
knocked out it was cold to the touch not even turning on. I was able to
run Norton Utilities 6.0.3 Disk DR and Speed disk on the OSX disk which
fixed everything. 6.0.3 is the newest you can upgrade to without buying
a new update and it did work! So after a few hours of thinking I'd lost
a drive and lots of not backed up work I;m back to normal. I sent this
question to Ryan at the XPF forums as well. I'm betting the added files
which are needed to run OSX on our machines is the problem with boot cd
working for our machines. Will S
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