Re: [WinMac] Re: Floppyless iMac (WinMac Digest #219 - 02/06/99)

Michael Ayotte(apple[at]riverview.com)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:39:01 -0800

> You see my point precisely... But what happens if you want to use a
>utility that is *not* on a bootable CD? With a floppy drive, you can still
>run it by booting from the MacOS Installer CD and running the utility from
>the copy on the floppy.

One usefull trick you may already know about. The System 8.5 CD has a fully
installed Appleshare stack on it. Meaning you can boot from the System CD,
mount a file server and run utilities from the server.

I do this often and it works extreemly well. Indeed this is how we format
all of our drives (since the version of Drive Setup on the 8.5 CD is not
the most current and may have data loss issues).

Sometimes the file on the server is an image file. I'm not sure about this
point, but when I mount an image from the server and run applications from
the mounted image, it does not seem to put any noticable load on the server.

I also have gotten in to the habit of burning bootable CDs with the
necissary utilities on it. We own the licenses for all of the software and
it is being used in place of the origonal CDROMs, so I do not belive we
would be considered in volation.

--
Michael Ayotte            apple@riverview.com
Asst. Dir. of IS
Riverview Systems Group   <http://www.riverview.com/>


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