“Mac OS X 10.2 may not make it to Macworld Expo San Francisco early next January. Sources close to the development of Apple’s Unix-based operating system, cited by eWeek, claim that the major update won’t be released until the summer, to cash in on the back-to-school period. In its place, Apple will roll-out more minor updates, just as it did a little while back with Mac OS X 10.1.1. A further update, 10.1.2, is expected early this month, having recently been seeded to developers. Then, in early spring, Apple will release what will presumably be known as version 10.1.3, the source said.” TheRegister reports. In related news, thanks to cracking details posted on the Web, Mac diehards discovered a way to turn a complimentary MacOSX 10.1 upgrade CD into a free copy of the operating system itself.
MacOSX 10.2 Delayed to Summer 2002
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I ordered the OSX.1 update CD from Apple last week and it should be here soon. Does anyone know if the CD’s filesystem is readable by Linux? In other words, is the CD a regular ISO9660 or is it in HFS+ format? I know BeOS can read the latter, so all may not be lost.
I would like to know also…actualy I would like to know if Apple uses ISO 9660 or HFS+ I think it is ISO since they have all those kids games out now that have both windows and Mac versions on the same disk, but I would like to know all the same.
From what I can tell, in terms of the use of Icons and such under OS 9 when mounting the CD, I believe it is HFS+. I guess I could just stick it in and tell you when I get home…
It’s a HFS+ CD. If you look at the info of the CD, it states MacOS Extended under format.
does that keep you from copying it? this is for educational purposes of cource. I am sure that the HFS+ cd format is closly guarded by Apple to keep people from copying stuff like OS X. now the question is….can the data be placed in an ISO and then read by Mac? I know Mac can read ISO.
just copy the files to the harddrive and burn the files to a new CD in ISO format. You’ll probably lose some long file names.
ISO with Joliette extension (which should be supported also) allow for long filenames. So that shouldn’t be a problem.
To copy it correctly, I believe you need to use a Mac. HFS+ = “Mac OS bootable” option under Toast on a Mac. From what I have heard, this option does not exist under Adaptec’s EZ CD Creator for Winxx, and Linux does not yet support the HFS+ format.
Will it have a Java2 Standard Edition 1.4 (cf JDK1.4) ?
I hope that the answer is yes ….
Linux does do HFS AND HFS+. You just need a current verison of the kernel and apps. My sony vaio has support for both HFS & HFS+.
This procedure assumes you have a Mac w/o a burner and a PC with a burner. Based upon what I’ve read above, a Mac can read HFS+ ISO images. So, find some Mac utility somewhere to create an ISO from a CD. Go into the ISO under MacOS and pull out that checking program. Then, using FTP, SAMBA, Appletalk or whatever you have on your home network, ship the ISO over to the PC for burning.
This is so typically Apple. One of the most infuriating things I found about being an Apple user was this announcement of release date, then shiiiiiift back. They’ll probably do it again and again.
Does anyone else out there share in my sentiment? I’m thinking about buying an iBook, but I don’t know if I can cope with the emotional rollercoaster that is life as a MacOS user.
8onal: with Roxio (used to be Adaptec) EZ Creator 5 you have the option of creating a bootable CD with either Floppy or Hard drive emulation (menu wording, not mine). In either case, you have to point the app to the boot image you want it to burn. I don’t see why you couldn’t pull the necessary files/image off a Mac onto some sort of external storage device (like a zip that was formatted for PC). Your PC wouldn’t know what to do with the image, but who cares: It doesn’t have to run, just copy.
Is there a way I can update a bootable cd of Mac OS X 10.1….I was given Mac OS X 10.04, but I want to install OS X10.1 which i have a .dmg file of.
Do I in fact need to buy Toast 5 for OS X to have the ability to burn ISOs? This is currently the only use I have for my firewire cd burner, but havnt been able to burn anything but a cd with the ‘contents’ of the ISO on it. Adaptec EZ CD Creator for winXX would just do it, under mac I cant get it to be bootable. (which would happen if it did just a straight ISO burn) I’m making i386 Debian install cds (:
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