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From: bskendig@bird.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: upgrdaing lots of Macs to 7
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Date: 10 May 91 20:38:51 GMT
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In article <1991May10.191346.2478@neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick) writes:
>Someone recently posted a long article about the benefits of System 7 (sorry,
>I lost the reference).

That was me.  ;)

>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.

[steps deleted]

It's not that difficult.  Here are the instructions I got with 7.0b1
about network installation; these may or may not still be valid, but
any differences with the final release will probably be minor.  Use
this just to satisy your curiosity for right now -- be sure to follow
whatever directions come with System 7.0 final, and ignore these then!

To set up the files on the machine that people will be installing
from:

1. Drag each disk icon to the hard drive icon.  This will copy the
contents of each disk to a folder with the same name on the hard
drive.

2. Create a folder named "7.0 Network Install", and drag the other
folders into it.

3. Move the files "Installer" and "Install" from the "Install 1"
folder out to the top level of the "7.0 Network Install" folder.

4. Make sure file sharing is turned on, and set the privileges on the
"7.0 Network Install" folder to "see folders" and "see files", "change
all enclosed folders".

To install over System 6.0x on a networked machine:

1. Mount the volume with the System 7.0 installation files on it.

2. Run the "Installer" program, and tell it to install over your
current system software.

And that's all there is to it!

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