Comments on: Building a Mac Tech Utilities Drive http://appletechnician.com/2009/04/27/building-a-mac-tech-utilities-drive/ Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:20:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve http://appletechnician.com/2009/04/27/building-a-mac-tech-utilities-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Steve Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:46:47 +0000 http://appletechnician.com/?p=157#comment-451 I'd also suggest Grand Perspective - helps graphically display individual file sizes across a scanned volume or directory. Good for killing abandoned iMovie files. I’d also suggest Grand Perspective – helps graphically display individual file sizes across a scanned volume or directory. Good for killing abandoned iMovie files.

]]> By: Bryan http://appletechnician.com/2009/04/27/building-a-mac-tech-utilities-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Bryan Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:18:14 +0000 http://appletechnician.com/?p=157#comment-390 Nice list. We used to use a similar setup on multiple hard drives for our laptop support area, but were getting slammed during high-traffic times, so we've moved it to using Netboot instead. If I ever get a password reset method to work on it (the great missing link), I'll let you know. Nice list. We used to use a similar setup on multiple hard drives for our laptop support area, but were getting slammed during high-traffic times, so we’ve moved it to using Netboot instead. If I ever get a password reset method to work on it (the great missing link), I’ll let you know.

]]> By: Joe http://appletechnician.com/2009/04/27/building-a-mac-tech-utilities-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Joe Tue, 05 May 2009 13:42:22 +0000 http://appletechnician.com/?p=157#comment-31 Thanks, Damien. The second option worked well for creating a Leopard Tools volume. Appreciate the article. Thanks, Damien. The second option worked well for creating a Leopard Tools volume. Appreciate the article.

]]> By: Damien Barrett http://appletechnician.com/2009/04/27/building-a-mac-tech-utilities-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Damien Barrett Mon, 04 May 2009 12:19:56 +0000 http://appletechnician.com/?p=157#comment-27 Joe, if the Mac has an Intel processor, then this is true--the Leopard installer won't allow you to continue, giving you this error, as documented by Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1600 If the Mac is PPC, then it will allow the installation to continue, since the HD is already formatted APM (all PPC Macs have APM-formatted HDs). So you have two possible workarounds to this problem: 1) Build your "Leopard Tools" on an PPC Mac, or 2) Build it on an Intel Mac (with GUID formatted HD) and then make an ASR of the partition using Disk Utility, then reformat the external HD to APM, and use Disk Utility to restore your just-created ASR .dmg to the proper APM partition. Joe, if the Mac has an Intel processor, then this is true–the Leopard installer won’t allow you to continue, giving you this error, as documented by Apple:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1600

If the Mac is PPC, then it will allow the installation to continue, since the HD is already formatted APM (all PPC Macs have APM-formatted HDs).

So you have two possible workarounds to this problem: 1) Build your “Leopard Tools” on an PPC Mac, or 2) Build it on an Intel Mac (with GUID formatted HD) and then make an ASR of the partition using Disk Utility, then reformat the external HD to APM, and use Disk Utility to restore your just-created ASR .dmg to the proper APM partition.

]]> By: Joe http://appletechnician.com/2009/04/27/building-a-mac-tech-utilities-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Joe Mon, 04 May 2009 12:13:43 +0000 http://appletechnician.com/?p=157#comment-26 If the drive is formatted APM how does one install Leopard? Doesn't it require GUID? If the drive is formatted APM how does one install Leopard? Doesn’t it require GUID?

]]> By: mike http://appletechnician.com/2009/04/27/building-a-mac-tech-utilities-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-23 mike Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:12:07 +0000 http://appletechnician.com/?p=157#comment-23 Just wanted to thank you for a great article. Do you know if anything like this for windows exists? Just wanted to thank you for a great article. Do you know if anything like this for windows exists?

]]> By: dvsjr http://appletechnician.com/2009/04/27/building-a-mac-tech-utilities-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-22 dvsjr Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:00:06 +0000 http://appletechnician.com/?p=157#comment-22 Love the article, its great to hear how other people's solutions work. I like the list of apps. I'd love to see links for each, might help with revenue too, no? Just a thought (cause I'm lazy) Love the article, its great to hear how other people’s solutions work. I like the list of apps. I’d love to see links for each, might help with revenue too, no? Just a thought (cause I’m lazy)

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