Re: OS X to OS 9 restart script...
Re: OS X to OS 9 restart script...
- Subject: Re: OS X to OS 9 restart script...
- From: "J.B. Stewart" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 19:36:27 -0500
On 11/13/01 at 12:02 PM, John C. Welch <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 11/09/2001 08:33, "Frank Linares" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Ok, so I want to make a simple script using AppleScript to tell my mac,
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> running OS X 10.1 on partition 'one' to set the startup disk to OS 9.2.1
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> on partition 'two'. I know this must be terribly simple, but... well,
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> I'm an AppleScript virgin. I tried mocking around with the Editor, even
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> recording, but nothing good came of it.
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In 10.1, you could script Terminal to use the 'bless' command to do this.
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john
John,
Could you please be just a bit more enlightening?
This doesn't work in Terminal OMM so neither does my script -
bless -folder9 /System Folder
Although the usage listing in Terminal makes it appear as if it would. Here's
the usage listing -
Usage: bless [options]
-bootinfo arg Path to a bootx.bootinfo file to be used as a BootX
-bootBlocks Set boot blocks if an OS 9 folder was specified
-noexec Show what would have been done, without causing any changes
-folder arg Darwin/Mac OS X folder to be blessed
-folder9 arg Classic/Mac OS 9 folder to be blessed
-info arg Print out Finder info fields for the specified volume
-quiet Quiet mode
-plist Plist format when -info specified
-setOF Set Open Firmware to boot off this partition
-use9 If both an X and 9 folder is specified, prefer the 9 one
-verbose Verbose mode
I suspect there are a lot of people on this list in the same fix I am. I'm
fairly competent with a Mac (and Applescript) or on a PC (yuck) but am a novice
at Unix. Those of you out there that know Unix please explain what you post. I
need all the help I can get and so do many others. Cryptic posts only serve to
frustrate.
John