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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Final System 7 - will it fit on a 1.44meg floppy?
Message-ID: <1991May8.145911.23289@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 8 May 91 14:59:11 GMT
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From article <1991May8.134818.23861@cbnewsc.att.com>, by straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka):

> What about us pre-FDHD owners?  What limitations would there be when booting
> off of a 6.0.x emergency floppy on a Mac whose primary HD volumes are under
> 7.x?  Any desktop or file system problems or issues?
> 
> For instance: I have crashed my bootable HD partition.  I want to restore my
> HD from my backups by booting from my floppy drive (800K) under 6.0.5.  This
> SHOULD work properly, right? 

Works for me.  In particular, I run Norton Utilities off an 800K 6.0.5
floppy.  If you do a lot of file-rearranging under 6.0.x, you'll see a 
thermometer tracking progress toward "configuring this volume for system 7"
or some such when you reboot under 7; you may have to hold down cmd-option
to get the desktop rebuilt as well if you do installation and such under 
6.0.x without the Desktop Manager.

I can't promise your backup program will work, to take your example.  There
ARE changes in the file system internals under 7.0.  If your backup/restore
program is too smart for its own good you could have problems.  Notice tha
Retrospect 1.3 is s7 compatible and has already been distributed to 
registered owners.  Gives me the warm fuzzies...(I have no connection with
Dantz/Retrospect except as a happy customer)
-- 

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com