[DEMUG] Permissions repair (Was: Re: OS 10.4 on CDs)

[Steve Bohrer]

One AppleCare phone tech told me that I must run Disk Repair from the 
original system disk (necessary since you can't repair the current boot 
disk) but said that I should restart and log back in to my account 
before repairing permissions. He claimed that for the permissions to be 
set properly, I should have my actual user id, rather than the special 
id used when you boot from the system CD or DVD.

I've never bothered to look for confirmation of this, but it seems 
plausible. (However, I have heard demonstratively untrue stuff from 
AppleCare phone techs...)

Still, Michele's point that you should be able to boot from your system 
disk as needed is a good one.

Also for 10.3 vs 10.4, 10.4 is pretty sludgy with less than 512 MB RAM, 
but 10.3 seems happy with 256.

Steve

Michele Stapleton wrote:
> Plus, every now and then you'll want to be able to pop in the disk to  
> repair permissions, so it won't work really well unless you have  
> frequent access to something that will read that DVD.
> 
> Michele