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From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Installer 2.5 glitches
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Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 10:56:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 10:56:00 1987
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Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Nov 18 09:56:00 1987


(This is a flame.)

Some poor, tortured soul, driven to distraction by endless disk swapping,
writes:

> 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.

I don't think this is the case.  I think the Installer is just abysmally
stupid.  It is checking resource-by-resource for the presence and size of
everything it installs, on both the target and source disks.  At two swaps
per resource (give me the source; give me the target) it adds up fast.

It is _impossible_ to run the installer from a floppy to install on a floppy,
unless you have two floppy drives, or a penchant for hours of tedium.

Once you have installed the new system on your hard disk, run the installer
FROM THE HARD DISK to install onto floppies.  This will work.

Those of you with just a single floppy drive--don't use the Installer.
It wasn't written for you.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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