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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7 installer won't work
Message-ID: <53165@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 19:10:09 GMT
References: <13743.2836cecd@ecs.umass.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <13743.2836cecd@ecs.umass.edu> farmer@ecs.umass.edu (THE MAD MUSKRAT) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>System 7 does not install properly on my SE/30.  This is the scenario.  I 
>uploaded the install disks and mounted the images with MountImage.  I then 
>ran the installer, and it produced no errors.  So I rebooted.
>
>What happened next was I got the happy mac, and then the welcome to macintosh 
>dialogue box appears.  Then the drive stops and the dialogue box begins to 
>shimmer (as though being redrawn at a high rate).
>
>The stranger part is that this same installer was used on a Mac Plus with no 
>trouble at all (with MountImage).
>
>Does anyone know what is up??  I also tried the customize option with no luck 
>(same problem).  Also tried this installer on another SE/30 and same problem. 
>I had no inits in the system folder.....(hide them in another folder)
>
>I also have 5Meg ram and I am running 6.0.7 (still).
>
>I will try to re-upload the files, but it seems strange that I could unstuff, 
>binhex and run the installer without error if the problem was in the 
>upload....(I used the 800K disks).
>
>Anyone with ideas, or similar problems????
>

  The Installer is known to have problems with using MountImage images.  Your
best bet is to install from real floppies or from a server.

  -- Dean Yu
     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     blah blah blah blah...