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From: jonah@amos.ucsd.edu (Jonah Stich)
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Subject: Re: What's so great about INSTALLER?
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Date: 5 Aug 90 15:43:59 GMT
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In article <4459UD182050@NDSUVM1> UD182050@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos) writes:
>I'll admit that I use it too, but I really don't understand what possible
>difference there is between copying the files, and telling the installer to
>do it....would someone please explain that to me?
>
>Mike

Well, I'm not an Apple emplyoee, but I think itgoes something like this: if
you use the installer, then you WONT miss anything. You won't accidentally
have GS.OS from system 4.0 and GS.OS.Dev from system 5.0. This removes a lot
of hassle for Apple, because they don't have to waste time trying to duplicate
a bug that you report, but that is only caused by incompatibility between
system files.

A note to Apple: Whenever I get a new system disk, I rename it and delete 
that Apple 5.25 driver, and the graphic control panel, so I can install
some more fonts and NDAs. This means that the Installer is absolutely 
useless to me, because when you try to install the new system files with it,
it wants, if I remember correctly, the 5.25 driver, and the control panel(?)
I think that before it becomes a really useful tool, the installer will have
to have some intelligence built in--the ability to decide which files are
essential, and which files (the 5.25 driver) can be left out without it
being a fatal error.For now, when I need a new system disk, I just make an
exact copy of my usual one, and add or delete the fonts/DAs/etc. that I don't
want....

Jonah Stich
jonah@amos.ucsd.edu