[geeks] Macitude

velociraptor velociraptor at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 13:23:52 CST 2006


On 3/28/06, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Question for the Mac-clueful:
>
> My kids have a lot of educational games.  Since CDs are fragile in small
> hands, we don't let them have the original CDs, they play from mounted
> CD images.  On Windows this is easily accomplished using VirtualCD.  The
> Macs, though, present a problem.  I can image the CDs using Disk Copy,
> and mount the images as virtual drives, which works fine; but the small
> kids are set up with the Panels interface, and I am utterly unable to
> find a way either to tell MacOS 9 that they have permission to mount
> disk images, or to have the needed images premounted for them.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions, aside from making them full unrestricted
users?

I don't know the details of the Panels interface, but have you
considered Applescripts to handle this?

=Nadine=



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