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From: esf00@amdahl.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Installer 2.5 glitches
Message-ID: <18374@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 13:18:57 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.18374
Posted: Tue Nov 17 13:18:57 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 21:56:26 EST
Organization: The Beige Building Full of Bright Engineers, Inc.
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Keywords: Installer 2.5 bozo hack purgable floppy dubious


$%@#&*!!!!

I'm using the new system and finder (4.2/6.0) , and I'm running into
problems with Installer 2.5.

Installing from the distribution floppy onto the hard disk on my SE
was no problem -- click, whirr, and all neatly installed.  No Font/DA
Mover hassles to deal with the 850k of fonts in my system this time.  One
happy camper, here.

The problems came when I attempted to install the new system on a floppy
for some of the software that won't run off the hard disk.  Rather than
drag the system folder to the new floppy and then trash icons that weren't
needed on the new system, I figured that I could use Installer to ensure
that only the necessary resources went onto the new floppy. :-)

First, Installer requires that it be run from a boot disk.  OK, so reboot
from a copy of the distribution floppy.

After selecting the appropriate resources, I then got (at least)
twenty-two (I may have lost count) "insert the following disk..." boxes,
alternating between the system (boot) disk and the new floppy, while
the message at the bottom of the main window said "calculating sizes...".

After a fifteen second wait after the last floppy insertion, I got back
the "this will take xxxk on [insert name of new disk here], or will
free yyyk if deleted" message and the appropriate radio buttons
highlighted.  Clicking "install" resulted in another orgy of floppy
swapping that I terminated after about thirty disk insertions.

My suspicion: that one or more segements of Installer are marked
"purgable", and are getting purged at the slightest provocation,
resulting in innumerable floppy swap requests to reread the segment.

My request:

Is there a set of [ResEdit] patches to Installer 2.5 so that I can
reasonably run it from a floppy on a single-floppy SE or Plus?  I don't
want to have to install the distribution system folder (and all of
the unneeded resources) on my SE (and on the Plus at work) just so
I can create an occasional bootable floppy.

Alternatively:
Is there an exhaustive list of resources (not necessarily just those
identified by icons) that correspond to the various features defined by
the Installer?  (So I can do it by hand! :-))
-- 
Elliott Frank      ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00     (408) 746-6384
               or ....!{bnrmtv,drivax,hoptoad}!amdahl!esf00

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