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It's possible to make it start in "X mode", however it's buggy, so it doesn't help much. Wait for the next version.

Well, to explain further. A zombie is a child process (ie a process created by another, for example Terminal) that has exited, but the owner hasn't received the reason it exited. Until the owner actively does so, the process will be left as a zombie. If the owner exits, the zombie will go away.

You can put an alias to them in /Users/ftp/, or perhaps it will have to be a symlink. But try an alias first.

I don't think it's possible to restrict a group to a folder. It is however possible to restrict users to their home directory. You can either change the users home directory in NetInfoManager (use /dev/null for none), or you can put an alias to the common folder in their dir. (If you change it...

The only way to change setuid permissions currently is with the Terminal: Launch it. Type "su" (no quotes) to switch user to root (you need the password, obviously) Type "cd /Applications/Classic.app/Contents/Resources" provided that you haven't changed the name of Classic (and you shouldn't)...

This could use a better explaination :) To add a group: Open /Applications/Utilities/NetInfoManager Authenticate. Open the "groups" folder Click "Create New Directory" (button to the left) Change the name value. Select "New Property" from the Directory Menu. Change the propetry name...

Could you be more specific? Is the Startup Disk panel in System Preferences crashing, or doesn't holding option at boot work? In both cases your OS 9 partition might be damaged. Boot from a cd and run Disk First Aid on it.

Try launching the OS X Disk Copy first and then drag the disk image to it's window. Personally I've put an alias to Disk Copy on my desktop so I can drag images to it. Also note that OS X Disc Copy can mount some, but not all shrinkwrap images (you're out of luck for the others, have to convert...

That's weird. Anonymous access should be denied (and is on my system) until a user named ftp is created. Then it would be limited to that user's home directory.

I agree fully with the previous poster and want to point out that administrators have write access to the applications folder. The account you made at install is an administrator. Also, what he ment with chmod for non-unix ppl: Login as root (or the owner of the directory you want to change...

The reason loggin out and then in frees up vm is probably that it makes apps quit. Particulary Classic.app seem to be very bad att releasing the memory it allocates (perhaps for technical reasons), so quiting and restarting it might be enough to free quite a lot of mem.

I've gotten it even using the panels. Wanted to point out that sometimes you have to run Disk First Aid on the hd to be able to boot os 9 from it. (If Startup Disk crashes in System Preferences)

Login as root System Preferences/password Done

I just tried software mode in Diablo II. Works perfectly. Not RAVE though (everything that's supposed to be half-transparant don't appear at all, plus the memory problems i wrote of above)

It grows dynamically. I only had 2 files when I checked, each also 80M. So I suppose it allocates them in chunks of that size. If you installed it on a 1GB partition you probably don't have much free space left though.

Use Drive Setup in the Utilities folder to reformat your drive.

No, and I really doubt it. What I do know is that you should never be logged in as root unless you absolutely need to.

Nope, it's a swapfile (or 2 it seems). I suppose Apple thought it a bit too hard for ppl to config swap partitions. They're stored in /var/vm/ I don't think you can move them to another disk. They are likely opened before other disks are mounted.

Hmm, Diablo 2 was the one game that didn't run well for me. It tries to use too much memory, and end eating up a whole gig of disc space in the swap file, which made it slow. Games that isn't so memory hungry has worked well though (except for the mentioned lack of multi-button support)

You shouldn't need any -l arguments in OS X/darwin. Just like linux it includes all needed libraries automatically. Try compiling without it. Sometimes one have to add a -framework though.