wow! think thats it, my osx partition had about 200meg free at the moment...
luckily, i've looked into copying the whole thing to a new partition so i think i've to look to toast for the time being.. cheers for the info, jake on 16/4/02 14:46, Tod Fitch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You should also check your free hard disk space. What appears to > happen is that OS X creates a disk image file that it puts on the > desktop. As you copy to it you are actually copying on to your HD. > Then when you eject the disk, it creates yet another disk file that > is what it will actually burn. I found that to burn a 600 Mbyte CD I > needed to have over 1.2 Gbyte free on my hard drive. > > This was on a supported iBook, but I can't see why it would be > different on an unsupported machine. > > -Tod > > At 8:02 AM -0400 4/16/02, Bailey wrote: >> Toast 5.1.2 works very well- and familiarly. What I don't like about OS >> X's CD burning is that you can't make multisession CDs. >> OS X cd burning works by "preparing" a blank CD, then you are to drag >> and drop stuff onto it. Maybe there's a problem with your burner or your >> media. >> >> -Ford >> >> On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 04:23 AM, jake williamson 28 wrote: >> >>> hello! >>> >>> i'm running osx1.1.2 on a g4 400. >>> >>> how does the cd burning work? i tried it out a couple of nights ago - >>> my cd >>> burner is connected in via a scsi card. >>> >>> the mac asked me to initialise the disk then i tried copying stuff to >>> it but >>> it chucked up an error 3mins in. then i ejected the disk and it asked >>> me if >>> i wnat to burn it? >>> >>> has the mac gone a bit pc in it's cd burning? i'm so used to using >>> toast in >>> os9 - be good to get some info on how the system works? >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> jake -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
