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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: INITs clear screen: can this be stopped?
Summary: Or...
Keywords: Inits
Message-ID: <557@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Aug 89 18:52:13 GMT
References: <1989Aug21.113301.4620@aucs.uucp> <17474@ut-emx.UUCP> <13721@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
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In article <13721@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
>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.
[...]
>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.

Yep, that's true.  I had the same problem the other day when trying to run
Installer to make a friend a system disk for his 2-floppy Plus.  Installer is
really annoying about stuff like that, and the way it deals with a single
floppy system is really unforgiveable (although doesn't it mention that it
requires two floppies somewhere?).

I remember hearing about another init manager (I think either MacWorld or Mac-
User did a review of these things recently) that also allowed you to change
the _order_ in which the inits were executed.  I don't think it was free, but
it may have been cheap.  This would solve the problem without renaming or dis-
abling any of the inits in the System.

--Mike

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