[G4] Can't Trash .dmg File

[Vicki Schalin]

>On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 10:22  AM, Vicki Schalin wrote:
>
>>You could also try the trick to restart in OS9 instead. There is 
>>very little security under 9 so one can really mess up the files 
>>belonging to OSX if one wants to, but in this case you anly want to 
>>delete one broken file, so if you don't want to get into the 
>>terminal and that stuff, this is a fairly simple way to do it.
>>
>>The broken file will not be placed on the desktop under OS9, but in 
>>the folder desktop in your user-folder. Look for it there, or do a 
>>search for the name.
>>
>>best of luck!
>>
>>/ Vicki
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>>Vicki Schalin
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>
>I read somewhere that works if OS 9 is on a separate partition. Does 
>it also work on an unpartitioned drive?

I honestly don't know for sure. I have 9 and X on separate drives. 
But  everything I remember tells me that you can restart under OS9 if 
you have it installed and haven't stripped it so much to only use as 
Classic. My OS9 is still functioning, I haven't deleted stuff from 
that system, I think it's terrific extra way out in emergencys, plus 
my crappy printer has no drives under OSX.

I guess you are thinking about the shortcut to choose startupdisk. If 
OS9 and OSX are on separate partitions you can hold down the alt 
(option) key during restart, and then you get to choose which disk to 
start from. Easy. But even without this you can always change startup 
disk to OS9 under X, and then restart the computer. Remember to 
change it back to X under OS9 when you are done. I think this is the 
other way to do it, the normal way, as people aren't expected to 
partition their disks to run OSX. (As far as I remember..:-)

/ Vicki
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Vicki Schalin