Cocktail

Get the newest version of DiskWarrior and it will boot fine. I wouldn't use Norton's on OS X again. Do some searching, it's cause a lot of people problems, and Symantec admits it's not completely compatible. With the built in maintanence and DW, that's about all you need. Get Cocktail from http://www.versiontracker.com and use that for various things. clecn cache, run...

tHANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I did not think of the obvious. Your help is greatly appreciated. I am now up and running in Standard mode. That teaches an old geezer like me never to mess around with my system when it is running so well. :D

in screen. Log in there and tell Cocktail not to log you into single user mode. ...

I am now trying to start up from the Panther install disc using the "Option" key on reboot. The machine again boots in "verbose?" mode and again tells me that the "root device is mounted read-only". Stuck again. :rolleyes:

Help. After setting up my machine in Cocktail for "Single User", My machine will not boot to the OSX interface. It has taken me to the root directory and I cannot log in from there. ...

The above advice is sound. Repairing permissions does seem to speed things up, and Cocktail (free) is great. Check macupdate or version tracker and see if there's any others that tickle your fancy. Onyx is one viable alternative. Also, do you put your iBook to sleep or shut it down? I find mine have been snappier when coming out of sleep rather than having to start up (I let...

doing a clean install of jaguar would be cool, but you can do a lot without reinstalling to help it run smoothly. You could use something like MacJanitor or Cocktail to run the cron scripts and clean out your VM cache and such. ...

Most of those directories are hidden by default, so you'll have to either: a) use the terminal with the "ls -la" command to list ALL files and direectories, even hidden ones, or... b) use a utility like Cocktail (available from versiontracker.com) to make hidden files visible. To access the root directory, simply double-click on your hard drive. That will open to the...

quite a bit slower than the clean install I had done on my iMac. So I checked out the program suggested before. And it seemed to help! Go get it now, it's called Cocktail and it's really helpful! ...

Except for re-binding, very good system tune-ups (prebinding runs automatically whenever needed in the background since Jaguar, probably by the same trigger that runs an automatic de-frag under Panther) I've read a couple of articles that show how manual pre-binding is not relevant for Jaguar (and by extension, Panther), HOWEVER, I sometimes do a re-bind anyway, and there...