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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HEEEELP.. hard drive woes.. woe is me woe is me..
Message-ID: <52129@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 91 19:20:26 GMT
References: <15124@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <15124@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>        What are errors $0002 and $00014?
>
>        Both seem to happen with the error message "Unable to load
>descriptors." I do not know what the "descriptors" they are talking about
>are though.  It sure seems odd that two different error numbers can give the

Boy, do I know this one.  That error string is returned by code that's trying
to load the File Type Descriptors (for 5.0.x, that's FType.Main and FType.Aux)
from the *:Icons folder.  However, it only returns two original errors:  $4242
(no FTD files found) and $4243 (no FTD file with auxtype $0000).  If you're
getting anything else, it's being returned as a GS/OS or Memory Manager error
from one of the calls.  I would suspect hard drive problems, honestly.

>[...]
>        This is really weird as when I did the naughty "just copy 
>junk onto the disk" without using the Installer, it never barfed at me.
>That was with an older version of the system though I think.
>
>        Suggestion to Andy Nicholas or other people who have something to
>do with the Installer:
>
>        PLEASE make future Installers a little bit more flexible. For
>example, if I don't have a certain size font, KEEP GOING. Only barf on 
>things like Start.GS.OS and the Finder file itself, and that sort of
>high magnitude stuff.
>
No, No, No, No!  I'll fight it, I will I will I will.

Why?  Because to do so would mean you could throw together something that
looked kind of like a real system disk, install from it and have who-knows-what
on your disk and still think it was "installed by the Installer."

Using the Installer needs to be _easier_, granted.  But to make it work from
things which aren't the real system disks is, IMHO, a really not-so-great idea.

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