At 4:50 PM +0100 2/10/01, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
>Le 10/02/2001 a 15:38 +0100 , Martin Husemann ecrivait :
>
>
>>Yes, it can be programmed into the power controller. Unfortunately, I think
>>you need to boot MacOS to do this. Someone (tm) should change this!
>
>Yes. Nevertheless, it's a good practice to burn a MacOS bootable 
>(with network) CD, with SystemDisk 2.1.3 (patched) and BootVars 
>copied onto it.

Can't you just boot from a standard MacOS distribution CD and run the 
Energy Saver control panel from there?  I can say the bit is sticky. 
I did it once years ago before I even installed NetBSD and it still 
works.

Of course a CD like you describe is still useful to keep around.


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