Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Tell me: what was System 1.0 like? Message-ID: <1991May15.002027.337@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 15 May 91 00:20:27 GMT References: <13942@ur-cc.UUCP> <1515@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <1991May10.171628.19512@MDI.COM> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 19 francis@magrathea.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: > Can't compare to running the Installer (for Sys6.0.5) on 1 drive: the > damned thing copies 1 resource at a time. I didn't know this before I > started. It took about 90 minutes and about a million swaps. Either the Installer was changed big-time between 6.0.5 and 6.0.7 or I'm confused. Just this afternoon, I used the Installer to prepare a boot floppy with minimal Mac Plus system software, responder, appleshare workstation software, and the LaserWriter 5.2 driver on my IIcx with a single floppy drive. Booted up from a (locked) 800k 6.0.7 System Tools disk, dragged my hard disk into the trash, and did the install on another 800k floppy. Only took about 9 swaps that I can remember (System Tools, Target, Utilities 1, Target, Utilities 2, Target, Printer Tools, Target, System Tools). No big deal. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"