I understand that I can edit dock.app via the com.apple.dock.plist file in the ~/Library
I tried to open the file but can't find any way to...
How can I open these files?
I've been holding another discussion in a different post as to how to get out of X into 9... I've tried EVERYTHING, believe me.
I now know (I think) how to solve the problem...
I can finally put a 9 CD in my iBook.. it won't show up if I hold option on boot for some reason, but I can change...
Unfortunately because I share my iBook disk between 9 and X... I can't make direct repairs to the disk with disk utility because OS X is running ont hat disk..
Basically, I will never be able to boot into Mac OS 9 again, which renders this iBook completely useless.
StartupDisk doesn't...
I have no access to OS 9 at all.. System Preferences->Startup Disk crashes... option key on boot won't work either.. booting from CD won't either..
My only option is nvram. Here's what dumped out of nvram...
little-endian? false
real-mode? false
auto-boot? true
diag-switch? false...
I'm running a Graphite iBook SE with Mac OS 9.04 and OS X on the same disk. When holding option on startup, the boot screen only recognizes the OS X system.
When I try to open the StartupDisk System Preference, System Preference crashes.
So I have no way of booting back into OS 9. Trying...
I just downloaded 70MB of Apple developer tools for Mac OS X off of connect.apple.com. I open Developer.pkg and the Installer.app opens. I enter my admin password and go through the steps. Finally, when I click Install, it says
"Couldn't write bom to path"
And nothing will ever install...