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From: billing@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Wayne Billing)
Subject: Re: upgrdaing lots of Macs to 7
Message-ID: <1991May21.001344.22799@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
References: <1991May10.191346.2478@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 21 May 91 00:13:44 GMT
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In <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). 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

Sounds like too much work.
A System 7 machine set up as an AppleShare server can be accessed by any
workstation that can access an AppleShare server (regardless of version of
system the workstation is running). I have attached to a System 7 server
this way and it works. I have NOT tried upgradeing other workstations this
way but I can't think of anything wrong with trying to do so (of course I
had nothing to do with the creation of System 7 so what do I know really?)

Good luck
Wayne
billing@ccm.UManitoba.CA

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