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Is there any way to access the Finder to open an application once you are booted from the Mac OS X installation disc? I am trying to use VolumeWorks to partition my drive without erasing it, but I can't do it while I am running off of the system drive. I can't figure out how to access the application or Finder once I am booted from the Mac OS X Disc. Is there any way to do it?

Sorry, the Tiger installation disc does not have Finder available when you boot from it.
Under 10.3 and earlier it was possible to use BootCD <http://www.charlessoft.com> to create a bootable OS X CD with a working Finder and Dock on it. The developer has tried to build Tiger compatible versions but was not able to get them working satisfactorily. As far as I know he has abandoned development of this app. Maybe he'll get it going under 10.5.
I made a 5GB partition on a FireWire drive and installed a bare-bones version of Tiger on it that I can use to boot from in an emergency.

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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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