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From: phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: What's so great about INSTALLER?
Message-ID: <38507.26bd2e13@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 5 Aug 90 22:45:07 GMT
References: <4459UD182050@NDSUVM1> <12176@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
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In article <12176@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, jonah@amos.ucsd.edu (Jonah Stich) writes:
> 
> 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....
> 
You can always edit the installer scripts to delete non-essential files being
installed. Needless to say only do this if you know what you are doing or have
an appropriate reference such as the Technotes.  I have done this successfully.
-- 
Stephen Harker
Monash University