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Hans M Aus · Jun 4, 2004, 09:22 AM

bootCD 0.6, OSX 10.3.4

Last night I created a 700MB emergency CD image and burned the CD.

TechToolsPro, DiskWarrior, and Tinker Tools work without copying any additional software to the CD image. Other programs such as Preferential Treatment, Virex 7.5, and Snap&Drag won't work without additional software from the OSX 10.3.x system.

Are these extra steps worth the effort?
Which programs did you install on the emergency CD?

My sincere thanks to Charles Srstka for his generous help.

The most important thing I learned was to activate the console utility, which tells you what's missing and what's wrong. Console will tell you , for example, why the disk utility won't restore a dmg image

chris v · Jun 4, 2004, 10:28 AM

I just put diskWarrior and Mac Janitor on mine. Has Boot CD been upgraded for 10.3? If so, this is great news.

CV

CharlesS · Jun 4, 2004, 01:35 PM

Originally posted by chris v:
I just put diskWarrior and Mac Janitor on mine. Has Boot CD been upgraded for 10.3? If so, this is great news.

CV

Heh, you must have missed my thread last week. And then the threads that some other people who also missed my thread started.

Yeah, BootCD 0.6 was released a while ago. I'm going to release an 0.6.1 soon, though, because as it turns out, there's one kernel extension that causes the CD to crash on boot if it makes it in there. It's called CiscoVPN.kext, and for some reason none of all the testers I had must have had this baby installed. Oh well. At least it will be an easy fix. Anyway, in the meantime I'd mount the image before burning, check for that file in System/Library/Extensions on the image, and terminate it if you find it.

Charles

typoon · Jun 4, 2004, 02:58 PM

On mine I have TechTool Pro 4, Drive 10, Diskwarrior. Of course the standard Disk Utility that gets added by default. Might add Data Rescue X.

Hans M Aus · Jun 4, 2004, 03:05 PM

Why do you have both Drive 10 and Diskwarrior installed?

CharlesS · Jun 4, 2004, 04:48 PM

Originally posted by Hans M Aus:
Why do you have both Drive 10 and Diskwarrior installed?

That's one of the advantages of using BootCD - you can have all your utilities on one CD instead of having to reboot from a whole bunch of CDs to get everything done.

wataru · Jun 4, 2004, 06:55 PM

Originally posted by chris v:
I just put diskWarrior and Mac Janitor on mine. Has Boot CD been upgraded for 10.3? If so, this is great news.

CV

Having MacJanitor on there is pointless. I don't think the cron scripts are included on CDs created with BootCD, and even if they are, they wouldn't be working their mojo on the correct disk. TinkerTool would be similarly useless when run from a disk other than the hard drive.

Hans M Aus · Jun 4, 2004, 10:58 PM

Why does one need to use both Drive 10 and DiskWarrior?

We use only DiskWarrior and TechToolsPro. What additional repair features does Drive 10 offer?

Tinker Tools on the emergency CD lets you make all the files on the ailing hard disk visible.

chris v · Jun 5, 2004, 09:41 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
Having MacJanitor on there is pointless. I don't think the cron scripts are included on CDs created with BootCD, and even if they are, they wouldn't be working their mojo on the correct disk. TinkerTool would be similarly useless when run from a disk other than the hard drive.

Okay, I am teh nidiot. You're totally right. And thanks, CharlesS! My PB won't boot my DW cd, which is OS 10.2.something. I put an emegrency bare-bones install of 10.3 on my iPod, but don't want to fry it booting from it too much.

CV