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From: benji@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Benji Rudiak-Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hard disk as startup
Message-ID: <10779@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 5 Feb 91 03:11:21 GMT
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In article <11851@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>	You -could- just copy your whole System Disk to the hard drive,
>although people always suggest you don't do that...

Why is this?  Currently I don't use the installer, because 1) I don't want
to entrust my hard drive to a strange program; 2) I can never figure out
what scripts I do and don't want to use, but with the Finder I can pick and
choose; 3) There are warnings in some of the scripts saying that they
delete certain other files "to make room," which of course I don't want;
and 4) I have several patched system files which I don't want to replace,
since that would mean patching them again.  Is there really a reason why I
should use the Installer, or do people just not trust other people to know what
they're doing?

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