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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: the _best_ way to install system 7
Message-ID: <53167@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 19:57:41 GMT
References: <13750.28371ee2@ecs.umass.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <13750.28371ee2@ecs.umass.edu> hagan@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>I have found, that the fastest/coolest way to install system 7 is:
>
>get all of the disk image files (or the disks copied to image files)
>use imagemount (or mountimage, its a CDEV in mac.archive.umich.edu,
>which allows you to mount up to 8 -- wow just right -- image files
>as floppies.
>
>double click on the installer in the "drive" install1, and let it crank.
>no swapping, no floppies, no nuthin. get some munchies, and let it go.
>(also, it flies compared to a floppy install)
>
>

  I wouldn't recommend this because there have been some reports that the
Installer doesn't work properly with mounted disk images (Steve C is probably
going to kill me for saying this in the first place).  If it works, all the
power to you.  If it doesn't, well, consider yourselves warned.

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