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.


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