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Not maintained by developer - Version: 0.6.4.1, 5/27/2009 10:04AM PST
Foobar1969
CharlesSoft stopped working on BootCD 2 years ago, it will not be updated. Considering it was donationware, you really can't complain.
10.3? Not useful or up-to-date - Version: 0.6.4.1, 1/26/2008 12:00AM PST
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jhorvatic_dotmac
10.3 is to old and not useful or up-to-date. Skip making a version work with 10.3 and get up to date with one that will work with 10.5.2 which will be out soon.
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- 10.3? Not useful or up-to-date
anything for 10.4 - 10.5? - Version: 0.6.4.1, 6/25/2007 05:38PM PST
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pjlennon
Does anyone know of a tool to user for Tiger 10.4.x or upcoming 10.5? I have few 10.3.x or lower machines in my deployment. Thanks
Nice for prev. X-version users - Version: 0.6.4.1, 5/21/2007 12:26AM PST
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nobody2007
but the time has gone. Tiger is now up-to-date. With large steps Leopard follows. When did we get BootCD for Tiger? I´m sure some people are waiting for.
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Fix BootCD 0.6.4 yourself... - Version: 0.6.4, 4/24/2007 11:53PM PST
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artie505
See my post here:
<http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=810018&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&fpart=1>
<http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=810018&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&fpart=1>
BootCD Rocks and WORKS GREAT IN Panther 10.3.9 
- Version: 0.6.4, 2/28/2007 05:01PM PST
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allanster
Lickableunix: No it isn't true. I have used two versions of BootCD to create both 10.2.8 and 10.3.9 bootable CD's that both boot into the Finder and both work great. I have a complete arsenal installed on these for network cloning & restores, maintenance, repair, and recovery. I have them configured to get DHCP address and serve VNC so I can even work on headless macs booted off of these disks. I can surf off of them in both Safari and Firefox. I use them all of the time on multiple models of G3 through G5's. It took me a solid day of tinkering and a few coasters, but a little browsing for tips and experimenting yielded these and they are too cool! Use Disk Utility, not Toast. Yeah they're slow to boot (5 to 15 minutes), but they have saved me hours of frustration countless times. Charles is awesome for writing these programs and his Pacifist program is another killer app I have used and highly recommend!
johnsawyercjs: That's great if you have a newer model and the money, but what about when you need to upgrade a 4Gb drive to a 40Gb on a 1999 Powerbook Lombard for someone? I just booted the laptop from my BootCD, used SuperDuper! (another killer app) to clone an image of it over the network, shutdown and put in bigger drive, booted back up off of BootCD, SuperDuper! restored over the network, rebooted and voila.
Hope this helps. I've seen a review elsewhere on this site where "trunkeight" matter of factly tells people you can't get to the Finder on bootable cd's created with BootCD (translation - he can't figure it out). I get so sick and tired of people jumping to conclusions and slamming apps because they're too lazy to do their homework. Guess where I'm going next...
johnsawyercjs: That's great if you have a newer model and the money, but what about when you need to upgrade a 4Gb drive to a 40Gb on a 1999 Powerbook Lombard for someone? I just booted the laptop from my BootCD, used SuperDuper! (another killer app) to clone an image of it over the network, shutdown and put in bigger drive, booted back up off of BootCD, SuperDuper! restored over the network, rebooted and voila.
Hope this helps. I've seen a review elsewhere on this site where "trunkeight" matter of factly tells people you can't get to the Finder on bootable cd's created with BootCD (translation - he can't figure it out). I get so sick and tired of people jumping to conclusions and slamming apps because they're too lazy to do their homework. Guess where I'm going next...
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BootCD Rocks and WORKS GREAT IN Panther 10.3.9 - Version: 0.6.4, 2/28/2007 05:00PM PST
allanster
Lickableunix: No it isn't true. I have used two versions of BootCD to create both 10.2.8 and 10.3.9 bootable CD's that both boot into the Finder and both work great. I have a complete arsenal installed on these for network cloning & restores, maintenance, repair, and recovery. I have them configured to get DHCP address and serve VNC so I can even work on headless macs booted off of these disks. I can surf off of them in both Safari and Firefox. I use them all of the time on multiple models of G3 through G5's. It took me a solid day of tinkering and a few coasters, but a little browsing for tips and experimenting yielded these and they are too cool! Use Disk Utility, not Toast. Yeah they're slow to boot (5 to 15 minutes), but they have saved me hours of frustration countless times. Charles is awesome for writing these programs and his Pacifist program is another killer app I have used and highly recommend!
johnsawyercjs: That's great if you have a newer model and the money, but what about when you need to upgrade a 4Gb drive to a 40Gb on a 1999 Powerbook Lombard for someone? I just booted the laptop from my BootCD, used SuperDuper! (another killer app) to clone an image of it over the network, shutdown and put in bigger drive, booted back up off of BootCD, SuperDuper! restored over the network, rebooted and voila.
Hope this helps. I've seen a review elsewhere on this site where "trunkeight" matter of factly tells people you can't get to the Finder on bootable cd's created with BootCD (translation - he can't figure it out). I get so sick and tired of people jumping to conclusions and slamming apps because they're too lazy to do their homework. Guess where I'm going next...
johnsawyercjs: That's great if you have a newer model and the money, but what about when you need to upgrade a 4Gb drive to a 40Gb on a 1999 Powerbook Lombard for someone? I just booted the laptop from my BootCD, used SuperDuper! (another killer app) to clone an image of it over the network, shutdown and put in bigger drive, booted back up off of BootCD, SuperDuper! restored over the network, rebooted and voila.
Hope this helps. I've seen a review elsewhere on this site where "trunkeight" matter of factly tells people you can't get to the Finder on bootable cd's created with BootCD (translation - he can't figure it out). I get so sick and tired of people jumping to conclusions and slamming apps because they're too lazy to do their homework. Guess where I'm going next...
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whaa? - Version: 0.6.4, 8/8/2006 07:56PM PST
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Lickableunix
If there's no support for 10.4.x and the resulting 10.3.x bootCD will not launch the Finder*, this app has very, very limited usefulness to me.
*Is this true?
*Is this true?
Another alternative - Version: 0.6.4, 7/2/2006 10:09AM PST
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John Sawyer
I'm sure it's obvious to most people, but to those for whom it's not, if you do Mac drive maintenance, recovery, etc. regularly, or even just every now and then, where you need to boot from something other than the Mac's hard drive, a better approach is to buy a Firewire drive and install OS X and all your utils onto it. That way, you can add apps to it at will, update them, update the System on the util drive, etc. If physical size is an issue (carrying it onsite, etc.), buy a 2.5" drive enclosure and drive. The only problem with this approach is if you're working on older Macs that have only USB ports, not Firewire--Macs prior to the MacIntels won't boot from USB.
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