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From: Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg Marriott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Final System 7 - will it fit on a 1.44meg floppy?
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Date: 6 May 91 09:14:11 GMT
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In article <13850@ur-cc.UUCP>, hlsw_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Dave Hollinsworth) writes:
> 
> Well, the title pretty much says it - will a vanilla copy of System 7 final
> fit on a high density disk?  I know that there are copies floating around
> already, so someone must be able to answer this one.

Well, yes and no.  I would consider a "vanilla" copy of System 7 to be all
the stuff that is installed with Easy Install.  This won't fit on an FDHD
floppy disk.  But, the Installer will let you do a Custom installation called
Minimal Install.  This is how we made the Disk Tools disk in the FDHD set
of System 7 disks.  A minimal system for all Macs will fit on an FDHD floppy.

Note:  The System 7 personal upgrade kit contains an 800K floppy set.  This is
so that Mac Plus, Mac SE and Mac II owners with only 800K floppies can install
System 7.  The Disk Tools disk in this set has a copy of 6.0.7 on it, because
there's NO WAY we could fit a fully functional version of System 7 on an
800K disk.

Greg Marriott
Blue Meanie
Apple Computer, Inc.