[DM-MUG] UserGroup Review and Info

[Victoria L. Herring]

>DasBoot 1.0.2
>Review by Judy Richards
>
>Developer: SubRosaSoft 
>(<http://www.subrosasoft.com/>http://www.subrosasoft.com/)
>Freeware
>
>During our last EPMUG Saturday morning workshop, Ken Westeen was
>showing off one of his famous "toys" and I noticed that it was just a
>simple USB thumb drive. But he was quick to elaborate that not only is
>it just a "simple" thumb drive but also a bootable toolkit loaded with
>his favorite OS X software tools. So I tried to talk him into to a
>small "how to" for the newsletter but instead, he copied the software
>application over to my thumb drive so I can do a review on it. By the
>way, it's totally FREE! and available to download from
><http://www.subrosasoft.com.>http://www.subrosasoft.com.
>
>All you need to do is install DasBoot and follow the prompts as they
>come up, the first being, start DasBoot, it will ask you to insert a
>valid boot disk (like Tech Tool Pro, DiskWarrior, etc), from the next
>screen it will present available application tools to load onto your
>iPod, Thumb Drive or Firewire Drive. In my case, I'm using a 30GB
>external Firewire Drive since I do not have a Intel mac (Yet!) and I
>chose the following tools (which you must own the license to)
>DiskWarrior, TechTools Pro, Disk Utility and DataRescue II.
>

>Keep in mind that the storage device that you're using needs to be
>formatted as a Apple HFS (standard Mac OS format) in order to be seen
>as a valid destination by DasBoot. When DasBoot can see your
>destination drive, you then select start, DasBoot will ask you to
>authenticate, and it will proceed towards installing everything you
>need to make your iPod, Thumbdrive or FireWire Drive into a bootable
>software toolkit. This process takes about 15 minutes.
>After completing the process, I decided to test out my new "toolkit"
>on my powerbook (G4 1.5 Ghz). First I had to boot into the newly
>created "tools" by holding down the option key and selecting the
>firewire drive when it became available. After it finished booting. I
>was presented with a menu of different applications much like TechTool
>Pro or Disk Warrior called SRS Launcher. For the purposes of testing,
>I ran Disk Utility and repaired the disk and permissions. Worked fine.
>I then tried running Disk Warrior but ran into trouble with that but
>maybe it was more with my version since mine is a couple of years old
>so maybe a newer version would work better.
>But anyway, very nice little tool to add to your software "toolbox"
>and what more can you ask for.... it's free!


[no warranty from me but I thought it might be of interest here]
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights, 
Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph. 
515/255-4475;  iChat AV:  victoriaherring at mac.com;  Skype:  vlherring.
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