I don't see why XPF couldn't perhaps be used to boot from such a CD. Ideally it could "prepare" a disk image for use on our machines. It would be nice. I did notice that when booting from the install CD (jaguar) as if to install, you can run disk utility.
-Ford On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 04:21 PM, Will Schoumaker wrote: > > 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. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
