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<blockquote type="cite" cite>DasBoot 1.0.2<br>
Review by Judy Richards<br>
<br>
Developer: SubRosaSoft (<a
href="http://www.subrosasoft.com/">http://www.subrosasoft.com/</a>)<br
>
Freeware<br>
<br>
During our last EPMUG Saturday morning workshop, Ken Westeen was<br>
showing off one of his famous "toys" and I noticed that it
was just a<br>
simple USB thumb drive. But he was quick to elaborate that not only
is<br>
it just a "simple" thumb drive but also a bootable toolkit
loaded with<br>
his favorite OS X software tools. So I tried to talk him into to a<br>
small "how to" for the newsletter but instead, he copied the
software<br>
application over to my thumb drive so I can do a review on it. By
the<br>
way, it's totally FREE! and available to download from</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://www.subrosasoft.com.">http://www.subrosasoft.com.</a><br>
<br>
All you need to do is install DasBoot and follow the prompts as
they<br>
come up, the first being, start DasBoot, it will ask you to insert
a<br>
valid boot disk (like Tech Tool Pro, DiskWarrior, etc), from the
next<br>
screen it will present available application tools to load onto
your<br>
iPod, Thumb Drive or Firewire Drive. In my case, I'm using a 30GB<br>
external Firewire Drive since I do not have a Intel mac (Yet!) and
I<br>
chose the following tools (which you must own the license to)<br>
DiskWarrior, TechTools Pro, Disk Utility and DataRescue II.<br>
<br>
Keep in mind that the storage device that you're using needs to be<br>
formatted as a Apple HFS (standard Mac OS format) in order to be
seen<br>
as a valid destination by DasBoot. When DasBoot can see your<br>
destination drive, you then select start, DasBoot will ask you to<br>
authenticate, and it will proceed towards installing everything
you<br>
need to make your iPod, Thumbdrive or FireWire Drive into a
bootable<br>
software toolkit. This process takes about 15 minutes.<br>
After completing the process, I decided to test out my new
"toolkit"<br>
on my powerbook (G4 1.5 Ghz). First I had to boot into the newly<br>
created "tools" by holding down the option key and selecting
the<br>
firewire drive when it became available. After it finished booting.
I<br>
was presented with a menu of different applications much like
TechTool<br>
Pro or Disk Warrior called SRS Launcher. For the purposes of
testing,<br>
I ran Disk Utility and repaired the disk and permissions. Worked
fine.<br>
I then tried running Disk Warrior but ran into trouble with that
but<br>
maybe it was more with my version since mine is a couple of years
old<br>
so maybe a newer version would work better.<br>
But anyway, very nice little tool to add to your software
"toolbox"</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>and what more can you ask for.... it's
free!</blockquote>
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<div>[no warranty from me but I thought it might be of interest
here]</div>
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