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From: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: upgrdaing lots of Macs to 7
Message-ID: <1991May10.191346.2478@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 May 91 19:13:46 GMT
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Someone recently posted a long article about the benefits of System 7 (sorry, I
lost the reference). One of the things he mentioned was you could use Personal
AppleShare to avoid fumbling with 6 installation disks on every machine you
install on. "Yes," I thought, "and how is this going to work, since you don't
have 7 on the machines you want to install on?" Then it occurred to me that the
following might work. Maybe someone who actually has a copy of 7 could comment.

  1. Install on one Mac, and make everything needed to install
     available through Personal AppleShare
  2. For each type of Mac you want to install on, create a
     startup disk with a minimal version of System 7, and drop an
     alias of the installer script for that machine in the Startup
     folder.
  3. Pass copies of the disks created in step 2 to everyone with a
     Mac on the network, and tell them to restart with that disk.

Philip Machanick