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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hard disk as startup
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Date: 5 Feb 91 14:28:39 GMT
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In article <10779@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> benji@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Benji Rudiak-Gould) writes:
|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?

I don't use the Installer myself, but I think what you're doing is very
dangerous (kids, don't try this at home!). When you get a new version of the
System Disk, those System files are very likely to be different than the ones
you have on your HD (after all, if they were the same, it wouldn't be an update)
Installing some files and keeping patched versions of older files is A Bad
Thing. I just use the Finder and GS/OS TN #1 to find out what files I need to
copy over and then copy _ALL_ of them.

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