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Again, failure to read the instructions all the way thru...
Authored by: rusto on Jan 20, '02 10:46:19PM
Steps 7 and 8 from the MacFixit article referenced:

7. Still, if you want to mount your hard drive, you probably can do it. Charles offered this suggestion (which worked for us): From Terminal, type:

mount_hfs [/dev/disk?s?] [some folder]

where [some folder] is any empty folder on the CD (there are some in /var/tmp/) and [/dev/disk?s?] is the entry of the partition you want to mount (which you can find by typing in the Terminal when you're booted from the hard disk).

8. For example, we typed:

mount_hfs /dev/disk0s9/private/var/tmp/Mount01

While this worked, the drive still did not appear in the Finder. To get it to appear, we additionally needed to go to the Finder window for the CD, ideally in column view, and navigate to the /var/tmp/ directory. From here, double-click the Mount01 icon and the volume/partition should mount.
With the full contents of the hard drive now accessible, we could work with most applications as the root user. For example, we could play Chess or create a document in TextEdit.

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Again, failure to read the instructions all the way thru...
Authored by: bluehz on Apr 14, '03 10:36:05AM

I would love to see steps 7 and 8 but they are for members
only. Any possiblility of praphrasing without encroaching on
copyright laws. I personally stipped using MacFixit (along with
VT) when they went corporate (e.g. pay). Many other free
resources available and they couldn't even get my 2 day free
trial subscrciption right. Never did get that free trial.



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