On Wednesday, SubRosaSoft released Das Boot, a free utility capable of taking a bootable third party boot CD for the Mac and creating a bootable diagnostic device from a USB of Firewire device such as an iPod or large flash-based key drive to boot from. The advantage to this comes in the form of speed and while a third party CD may be useful, it tends to be slow to boot from.
The newly configured boot disk can then be adjusted at any time to include updates, system revisions, etc.
Das Boot is available as a free 9.4 megabyte download (courtesy of MacUpdate) and requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later to run.
If you have any comments or feedback, let us know.

On Wednesday, SubRosaSoft released Das Boot, a free utility capable of taking a bootable third party boot CD for the Mac and creating a bootable diagnostic device from a USB of Firewire device such as an iPod or large flash-based key drive to boot from. The advantage to this comes in the form of speed and while a third party CD may be useful, it tends to be slow to boot from.
The newly configured boot disk can then be adjusted at any time to include updates, system revisions, etc.
Das Boot is available as a free 9.4 megabyte download (courtesy of MacUpdate) and requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later to run.
If you have any comments or feedback, let us know.