[G4] How & Why to "Bless a System" - 0S 9.2?

[Daniel Tellier]

Hello, folks.  I was doing some perusing of Pre OSX reference books and 
files and I ran across some detailed information on the following link. 
  Check it out.

http://web.whittier.edu/comp/macguide/Bless.cfm

Dan

On Friday, September 21, 2007, at 06:56  PM, jonny wrote:

> Thank you, Eric.  I've got the picture now.
>
> Jonny
>
> ///
>
>> I've found that if a system folder is valid, it will show up in 
>> Startup
>> Disk. In the olden days, one might rebuild the desktop file to make a
>> system folder bootable. I don't believe it's quite the same now with 
>> New
>> World ROM Macintoshes, but I may be wrong about that, too.
>>
>> If you can't get Mac OS X's Startup Disk preference pane to see the
>> classic system folder, you can have the classic preference pane 
>> rebuild
>> the desktop file on the drive. Or so I remember. That should take care
>> of it.
>>
>> If it's not bootable after that, I'd suspect that the system folder in
>> question is incomplete. Also, I got a disc full of Mac OS 9 systems 
>> for
>> various languages, though if someone tries to use something like that,
>> it won't be a complete system - those are stripped down for use in the
>> Classic environment only.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:08 -0700, jonny wrote:
>>>  Hello.
>>>
>>>  I feel like a real newbie to macintosh!  I don't know this term.
>>>
>>>  Will someone be so kind as to explain what it is to bless a copy of 
>>> a
>>>  OS 9.2 boot system, and how it is done?
>>>
>>>  Thank you.
>>>
>>>  Jonny
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