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Subject: Re: Final System 7 - will it fit on a 1.44meg floppy?
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In article <1991May8.145911.23289@cbnewsk.att.com>, ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) writes...
>From article <1991May8.134818.23861@cbnewsc.att.com>, by straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka):
>> 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.

A simpler method might be to use 6.0.7 as the 800 K emergency system
on pre-FDHD Macs.  That way you don't have to go through the desktop
rebuilding thing, which is potentially confusing.  Using System 6.0.5
for this won't hurt -- the disk can still be mounted and read -- you'll
just see a "DeskTop Folder" and a "Trash Folder".

Backup programs always scare me.  A bit of planning when it comes to 
disk organization (keep document files out of the Applications folder)
can let you rebuild a hard-disk faster with master disks and compressed
archives of data files.  I still see no reason to make complete image
backups.

Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)