[Info-vax] OT: For MAC Lovers Only :-)

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <507c0356$0$57913$c3e8da3$9b4ff22a at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> On 12-10-15 07:55, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> No doubt, but all the stuff I found on the net prtty much said that the
>> system checked ouyt the "System Folder" and if it was intact displayed
>> the "smiling mac".
> 
> Not quite correct. It checked for a "blessed" folder containing the file
> called "System" (and then probably checks that "System" has got the
> right attibutes).
> 
> On foreign language systems, it isn't "System Folder", it could be
> "Dossier Système".

Unless my French is slipping, that is nothing but "System Folder" in French.

> 
> Basically, the "blessed folder" is whatever folder you last copied a
> valid System file into.
> 
> So when it boots, it looks at the disk strcuture for the one folder that
> has been "blessed", and then in it, it looks for "System" (which is
> called that in foreign languages).
> 
> 
> You could create a folder called "Chocolate" and copy all the files from
> the system folder to it. Becase "Chocolate" would be the last folder to
> which a System file was copied, it would become the blessed folder and
> you would boot from it.
 
Yeah, but these are vanilla systems dating back to when most mac users
were, in fact, "users".   No hacking of the System Folders.  These just
stopped working.  I never determined what was wrong other than some form
of corruption of the system files.  And, to be quite honest, I am not
going to waste any time trying to do post mortems.  I have two working
systems and they should meet my needs if I can find a way to get Mac
software on them.  A daunting task in itself!!!

bill 

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