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From: chuq@Apple.COM (The Wandering Phew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System problems
Keywords: Help
Message-ID: <44932@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 90 19:11:18 GMT
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isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:

>My first step is always boot
>of the installer and then TRASH the System file.

I actually wish our manuals said something like this. If you have a
corrupted System file and install something into it, then by all rights it's
STILL going to be corrupted. But people do it and wonder why things still
crash.

>If you use Suitcase,
>it's nice and easy.  I keep Apple Standard DAs, Fonts in the System
>(everything else in Suitcases and opened via Suicase) and if I need 
>to reinstall, nothing ends up changing.  One step and it only takes
>5 minutes.

My system's not that simple. By the time I end up installing the System,
DAL, Clear Access, CD-ROM drivers, EtherTalk and the other things that have
to be installed into the System, I've got about a 14 disk set that I need to
do every time I re-install. But if I didn't actively keep stuff out of my
System file, It'd take me hours. I can reinstall in about 15-20 minutes,
even with all those toys.

(another hint: build a System Folder that has everything you need in it.
Then once you're sure it's all set, use StuffIT to create a .SIT file of the
whole thing. Reinstalling becomes trivial then. VERY useful if you're
crashing your system folder every 30 minutes or so...)


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