[WinMac] Re: Floppyless iMac (WinMac Digest #219 - 02/06/99)
David McKnight(dmcknight[at]fleetwood.com)
Mon, 08 Feb 1999 07:56:55 -0800
DAN:
I've generally had better luck with third party utilities -- and they've always
had a minimal system on their disks, even when they were running floppies. I
have no idea what the cost to license that would be, but I doubt it could be
much, it's not like you're trying to do a clean install of the OS from Norton.
Somebody on the list said they thought the Apple utilities were much improved,
and if that's the case you could boot from your system CD and run a repair from
there. Easy as you put it, Dan, is important -- and because of that I rather
doubt any utility publisher is going to peddle his software without having a
minimal system on board.
DAVID
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>To: "The Windows-MacOS cooperation list" <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>
>Subject: WinMac Digest #219 - 02/06/99
>Date: Sat, Feb 6, 1999, 5:00 PM
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> That's the problem: Any software house that wants to publish a disk
> repair, disk defragmenter, or disk editor utility for the MacOS needs to
> now license the MacOS from Apple... And that drives up the cost.
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