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From: phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Installer lobotomized in 6.0.4
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Date: 26 Oct 89 14:18:36 GMT
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In article <35918@apple.Apple.COM>, bjones@Apple.COM (Bruce Jones) writes...
} 
}As for your other comments about the Installer, yes I agree they are problems.
}But they aren't new problems.  We are installing basically the same stuff that
}old Installer did.  But the new Installer's design will let us do much better.
}System 7.0 is introducing a lot of changes in the System Folder, and the 
}Installer will be able to be more intelligent about what it's doing.   I think
}you'll like the results.
} 
}Thanks for the feedback.
}Bruce
}-- 

I found some other really strange problems with the new installer.  On
my home Mac II, it told me all the system files on my HD had newer dates
than the files on the installer disks.  It told this to me one file at a
time, I guess while it was checking....But, it wouldn't install!!

Now, my files probably did have a newer date,as I restored from a Tape backup
with 'Modify Date' inadvertently on.  Apple should not be checking dates, they
should check VERSION STRINGS in the files!  Just because my 6.0.3 system file
has a newer date on it than their 6.0.4 System file doesn't mean I want to 
abort installation!

I ended up building a system folder on another HD, then Copied everything 
into my Standard system folder (replacing same items) and rebooted.  This
worked fine for me since I do not modify my System file.
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