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  1. Opry99er

    Making a SCSI drive bootable

    Hello fine folks. My Mac Plus has been upgraded to 4MB, the old SCSI drives are now safely recovered and archived, I have a working LocalTalk network set up with my eMac, and all is well in the land. I wanted to accomplish all these things before I went on to my next task: Retiring my two SCSI...
  2. amagichnich

    'Bless' OS X system folder

    Hey guys, I encountered a very strange problem - 2 somehow 'unblessed' system folders! I'll explain what I did, maybe you can tell me what I did wrong. I exchanged the HDD of my 12" iBook with a SSD and installed Leopard on it. On the HDD was Tiger. After some days I decided to make it multi...
  3. J

    How to kill a zombie System folder?

    I have an external HD ("850 GB EXT") that was, at one time, the boot volume for an older iMac. I put it in a case and converted it to an external backup for my present system (mid-2007 iMac running El Capitan). Being a bit lazy, I left all the old files in place, in case I might want them for...