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• SHAREWARE - $10 - CASH ONLY
◊ This program is distributed as Shareware: this means that if you use it regularly you should send $10 (more or less, depending on how much you like this piece of software) to the author at the address above. Since collecting international cheques is VERY expensive, please send CASH ONLY. VERY expensive means that banks charge some $15 to $30. Thus, DO NOT send cheques, please.
◊ NOTE: Getting some (usually very few) bucks is what you write shareware for, but getting a note, a postcard or anything else is a lot better than getting nothing. I would like to know how far this program has gone, so remember that you can do something nice even if you do not have a couple of $ to spare.
• GENERAL INFO
◊ Any hard disk may be split into multiple disks, called partitions. Unfortunately, Apple HD SC Setup (the application Apple provides on System disks) will not let you create more than one Macintosh partition. SetupPartitions lets you overcome this limitation. How? Launch Apple HD SC Setup (be sure you are using the latest version; currently is 7.2.2). Create two or more partitions, as you would normally do, choosing the type “Scratch”. Quit Apple HD SC Setup, then launch SetupPartitions. Select the hard disk you just partitioned; SetupPartitions will transform the “Scratch” partitions into Macintosh HFS, MFS, or Apple // ProDOS partitions, at will. Nicely indeed, the System does not mount MFS partitions. If you succeed in mounting on the desktop a MFS partition, tell me how in the world you made it.
◊ SetupPartitions lets you use true, “hard” partitions (as opposed to “soft” partitions). If this sounds meaningless to you, do not worry: you can use SetupPartitions (and live comfortably) altogether.
◊ You can launch SetupPartitions multiple times in a networking environment, as well as from a locked disk (CD-ROMs are welcome; by the way, if this application is included on a CD it would be nice to send me a complimentary copy of it).
◊ SetupPartitions can only be used under System 6.0.4 or later; if you try to start it up under older versions of the System you will get an error message.
◊ Quadra AV users will particularly appreciate SetupPartitions: in fact, it seems that the only driver exploiting the new awesome hardware capabilities of the AVs is the Apple one. So you want to format with Apple HD SC Setup. Since these days hard disks are pretty huge, you also want to partition. So you want SetupPartitions.
◊ Apple hard disks usually come with a bit of unused disk space. This unused, empty space is the gray area you see in the “Custom” partitioning dialog in Apple HD SC Setup. The usual tip experts give is: backup the existing partition, remove it, then create a new one covering the entire disk; restore the previous contents. Since backup&restore is a time-consuming operation, you may want to exploit the unused disk space by creating a new partition.
• DISCLAIMER
◊ “No warranties at all, either express or implied…” “All trademarks are held by their respective owners…” and all that stuff.
This application should do no damage, but if it does then you will be on your own. Let me know of any bugs you run into, anyway.
• VERSION HISTORY:
◊ 1.0.1 - Updated the documentation and a couple of alert boxes (clarified some issues); no code changes.
• THANKS TO…
◊ Federico Cavaglià, because he did not swear too much when his hard disk was wiped out by a preliminary version of SetupPartitions (he had to reformat).
◊ Edoardo Ciotti tested on his lowly Mac SE.
◊ Jeffrey Fritz, William M. Porter, and Dave Yost gave important user interface suggestions implemented in 1.0.1.
◊ Alessandro Levi Montalcini did not test much because he had not enough time.
◊ Alberto Ricci did the same.
• ENJOY YOURSELF,
and remember that more and more shareware authors are going commercial because they receive almost nothing. If you don’t pay for good shareware software today, you are likely to pay much more in the future for exactly the same features, plus a nifty package, a good manual, and perhaps a copy protection scheme or a serial number; you know you don’t need the package, or the copy protection, and undoubtedly you will not want to waste your time reading manuals.
To report errors, suggestions, or whatever, send e-mail to simula3@di.unito.it
