Changing Volume Icons

[eskilling]

On my system I have two partitions. One for OS X and one for OS 9. Being a desktop junkie I like to change the icons for these two disks as the appear on my desktop. However, due to the nature of OS X with permissions and such I cannot change the OS X volume icon except when I log in as root. Both of the new volume icons won't appear until I restart the finder either. There must be an easier way to do this right?

Thanks in advance,
Eric

[Titanium Man]

Did you change the permissions on the hard drive so that group can't write to it? If you temporarily change them back to group writeable, you should be able to change the icon without having to log in as root. I've never had to restart the Finder to get the icons to change, so I can't help you there. Good luck!

[Thundarr]

Have you tried MenuPics? I couldn't find the link on versiontracker, but if you want to download and try it out, you can just click here (www.homepage.mac.com/siddharthariver/menupics1.0.dmg) to get it from my iDisk.

[sao]

Thundarr.

Thanks for the link.

Cheers...

[eskilling]

Currently the permissions of my two volumes are such:

Mac OS X partition

Owner - system - read & write
Group - admin - read & write
Everyone - read only

Mac OS 9 partition

Owner - system - read & write
Group - admin - read & write
Everyone - none

Hope this helps

Eric :)

[greywall]

Try booting into OS 9, modify volume icon, reboot into OS X - hope this helps.