On 4 Aug 2010, at 09:34, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 8/4/10 1:02 AM, Mike Linnett wrote: >> Howdy all, >> >> Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with >> tiger installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the >> tiger volume? >> >> Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 >> running tiger, and I thought I'd run through onyx's maintenance stuff >> while I'm here and it says to boot from the install disk to repair >> the hard drive, but I'm sans install disk, but do have my PowerBook >> with me, which is running leopard. I figured I'd boot the iMac into >> target disk mode and repair it from the PowerBook, but slightly >> concerned about the different os versions. > > Using Disk Repair should be fine. But don't try Repair Permissions that way, > that will mess things up. > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > Thanks Clark, I think it must've been the "don't cross pollinate repair permissions" thing that I'd remembered and was giving me concerns! Cheers Mike -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
