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- From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
- Subject: Re: disabling extensions: extension manager
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.155209.16121@tdb.uu.se>
- Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
- Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:52:09 GMT
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- Peter Bell (bell-peter@yale.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec23.141811.11598@tdb.uu.se> Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se writes:
- : >Noam G. Nudelman (P88038@BARILVM.BITNET) wrote:
- : >:
- : >: Hi,
- : >:
- : >: I am interested in changing some system extensions so that
- : >: when I hold the Shift botton down while booting, they will NOT be
- : >: disabled.
- : >:
- : >: Any help will be appreciated.
- : >
- : >As far as I know, it's (almost) impossible. Apple has made it with the
- : >Tune-Up by adding a driver that loads the INIT somehow, but it's tricky.
- :
- : yeah, as far as I know, the only solution is to use the extension manager
- : control panel (at sumex, et al.) to select a group of extensions to
- : enable at startup, disabling the rest. It works quite well.
-
- Yes, but this won't solve the problem. If you hold down the shift key, the
- system won't load any extensions at all.
-
- The way Apple did it with the TuneUp was to write a device driver instead of
- an INIT (or a device driver that loads the INIT), at least from what I've
- been told.
-
- /Mats
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