[WinMac] Re: Re: Problem Reporting [Was: Mac OS 8.6]

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:06:11 -0500

At 09:02 AM 5/28/99 -0500, Joe Schnide wrote:
>Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
>
>>At 10:08 AM 5/27/99 -0500, David Bell wrote in detail:
>> Next, surf on over to <http://www.MacInTouch.com> for daily
>>bulletins. Any suggestions for an NT equivalent, besides BugTraq?
>
>I'd say also take a look at:
>http://www.macfixit.pair.com
>http://www.maccentral.com
>http://www.macnn.com

        MacInTouch is the gold standard, with nothing (that I've
found so far) on
the windows side coming close. Macfixit is pretty good; but I've found
MacNN to be a bit on the brown-nosing side.

>And for pc, I haven't really seen something as good as these are for the mac
>for news, features and following bug/incompatibility/troubleshooting news.
Two
>decent sites are:
>http://www.ntfaq.com
>http://www.sysinternals.com

        These are both excellent sites - Especially Mark Russinovich & Bryce
Cogswell's sysinternals. But they don't keep a daily running scorecard of
breaking news like MacInTouch.

>If someone knows of some pc sites of the quality of the mac ones mentioned
>above, please post them as I have seen this request a number of times in a
>number of places! Heck, if you know some Windows gurus, show them the mac
>sites and ask them what sites are comparable for Windows.

        [cut]

        That's why I asked the question to begin with! :)

        Now, on to System files...

>> If you have multiple partitions &/or drives (Mac), drag a copy of your
>>present System Folder to another volume and throw out most everything
>>(fonts, unneeded CDEV's & INIT's, most preferences, etc.) except what is
>>needed to boot the machine and hook up to the LAN &/or Internet.
>
>Dragging isn't always great as it doesn't always properly 'bless' the system
>folder and the drive isn't seen as bootable with boot blocks. I do a minimal
>system install on another drive, partition or removable media for an
emergency
>boot device. Also, as mentioned before, a full backup before the upgrade is
>essential, not an option or luxury.

        Ahhh, the Finder can take care of that quite nicely: After drag-copying
the System Folder to another partition, drag the System file (suitcase) out
of the System Folder, and then back in. This works for System 7 & 8; not
sure on 6.0.8 or not. HINT: Don't drag the System suitcase to the desktop -
Just drag it to the root level of the hard drive (The window that is for
the drive itself).

        Cheers!
        Dan

>
>Joe
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