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From: brett@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu (Brett Morrow)
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Subject: Re: upgrdaing lots of Macs to 7
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Date: 21 May 91 14:40:40 GMT
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In article <1991May21.001344.22799@ccu.umanitoba.ca> billing@ccu.umanitoba.ca
(Wayne Billing) writes:
>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


Get the Network installer set from Ftp.apple.com.  I put it on my 
machine running System 7.  They I set up guest accout to the folder 
with sharing turned on.  I then went to another machine and just connected
using chooser appleshare (system 6.0.7) and ran the 
network installer.  It updated the local HD to system 7.  You will 
probably want to get the Disktools disk and take it around after
the upgrade and update the driver for apple drives and also run disk first aid
(there have always been repairs needed for us).


    Brett
Brett 

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