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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: INITs clear screen: can this be stopped?
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Date: 22 Aug 89 17:48:49 GMT
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In article <17474@ut-emx.UUCP> chrisj@emx.UUCP (Chris Johnson) writes:
>Note that it's OK too rename AppleShare, but don't rename your "AppleShare
>Prep" file or, I suspect, AppleShare won't be able to find it anymore.

Well, from since there's all this talk of throwing away (Easy Access) and
renaming (AppleShare) Apple's system-supplied INITs, there's a minor problem.
If you run installer from your HD and to try to create a bootable floppy, it
looks for a number of files in your system folder, as well as a number of
DAs and Fonts in your system file.  If they're not there, the Installer will
refuse to install the system on the floppy.

It's not as simple as just copying a folder to the floppy with a system file
and calling the folder "System Folder," either.  The folder must be "blessed"
as well.

When I don't want INITs to run but they're Apple supplied INITs, I just
disable them using INIT cdev.  That way, the Installer still works when
necessary.

Of course, you can always run Installer off a floppy, but then the disk
swapping gets *annoying* like all hell if you have a single drive.  Why
should I be doing the floppy shuffle if I have a goddam hard drive anyway?

-Ivan

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