[geeks] Macitude

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 @ 10:49 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:
>>This kinda crap is part of why I've always hated Macs.
> 
> Well, OS9 was never really designed to be multiuser, though certainly their
> abstraction does leak in this instance.

Yeah, that's a large part of the problem.  It's a single-user OS with
multi-user provisions bolted on as an afterthought.

> The problem is that images are not "first class citizens" like the real
> devices, and I suppose they never integrated that into their permissions
> system, at least not fully.

So it appears.

> Is there a way to permanently mount the media to an otherwise unused label
> name, or do the needed drive labels clash?

Not so far as I know.  I'm going to see if I can figure out a way to get
the images mounted during startup and see if that solves the problem.


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