Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: hacking installer scripts (was Sys 7 little bucket in upper right corner) Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 06:15:47 GMT References: <1991Jun5.233110.1753@cs.sfu.ca> <18187@venera.isi.edu> <1991Jun9.233220.474@massey.ac.nz> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: news@massey.ac.nz's message of 9 Jun 91 23: 32:20 GMT In article <1991Jun9.233220.474@massey.ac.nz> news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes: >As I understand it, when you do an installation for a specific machine, the >installer also puts in the minimum software to drive all Macintosh models. >That's why you get the brightness cdev and other little goodies which only used >in specific models. A possible reason for doing this is that if you installed >on an external HD of one machine type and than took your HD to another machine >type and you didn't have the minimum OS requirements for that machine, you >wouldn't have a bootable HD. But can't the system tell when a disk is internal? And why does Apple ship machines with systems like these? I set up a friend's SE last fall, and it had things like the Portable cdev on its preinstalled hard drive! -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Should five percent appear too small, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | Be thankful I don't take it all. "Taxman" | \============================================================================/