Question... Booting from the Mac OS X Tiger DVD

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adrian.wills

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I feel like a complete idiot! I would like to boot from my Mac OS X Tiger DVD so that I can run idefrag and give the hard drive a good clean up. It says to boot from a bootable CD so I can run it. I hold down C when I restart and I just get the installer for Mac OS X... But I don't wanna do that, so I select Start-up disk and pick the DVD but again it boots the same way... I feel like a complete idiot but what happened to the old days of booting from the System disc by holding down C and running a few clean up tools - I use to do it in OS 8! What am I doing wrong. And with the release of boot camp and the intel mac it's an impossible subject to Google! Would LOVE some help with this. Thanks in advance.

Running: 12" Powerbook/G4/1.5GHz/512MB RAM/OS X 10.4.7
 
Well: You can't boot into the system that way. All you get is the installer and some little tools like DiskUtility you can run from there. You'd probably need a secondary Mac OS X installation from which to boot, then you could run iDefrag and defragment the mounted (but not booted from) harddrive.

Then again: Why defragment at all? OS X does this on the fly for most files, anyway.
 
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