🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3507B9D4.14A8D96D@teaftech.demon.co.uk>,
Lawrence Flowers <leaf@teaftech.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>The updater folder at Apple contains an OS 8.1 disc tools image, with a cut
>down 8.1, Disc First Aid and Drive Setup 1.4.   Are these not enough?  surely
>they don't expect everyone to buy 8.1 on CD.

Having bought a Mac mag (Mac Addict) in the States yesterday complete with
a CD which contains a US updater, the descriptions in the mag seem to me to
make it quite clear that the CD-ROM updater contains what you need to do
the HFS+ formating. The 'disk tools PPC' folder on this one includes a 1Mb
OS 8.1 system folder so I guess that's the basis for the HFS+ reformating.

Their account of the experiences of their staffers doing the 8.1 upgrade
with HFS+ is rather scary. Two of them did so; one of them had major
problems, another had minor strange ones. The ones who went from 8.0 to 8.1
with the old filing system had no problems at all. They recommend the 8.1
upgrade but *not* going to HFS+, as yet; certainly not until there are 3rd
party utilities which can handle HFS+.

-- 
Peter