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From: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Black Apple (problems installing systems)
Message-ID: <1140@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 17:39:45 GMT
References: <1052@microsoft.UUCP> <9601@haddock.ima.isc.com> <65200@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
Lines: 44

In article <65200@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>In article <9601@haddock.ima.isc.com> suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti) writes:
>>	About a month ago, I upgraded to system 6.0 on my Mac II.  A
>>friend upgraded his SE to 6.0 at about the same time.  We both used to
>>the installer to do the upgrade.
>>	My friend found 6.0 so buggy that he reverted to 5.4 (or
>>whatever his previous system was).  This was now newly just as buggy.
>>He solved his problems by erasing his hard disk and installing 5.4
>>from scratch.  (By doing selective restores, he cleaned up all sorts
>>of cruft on his hard disk at the same time).
>>
>>	The moral of the story is that the installer is broken.  Damn
>>shame.  It is very convenient.
>>
>Thanks for the information. That explains why I couldn't revert to System 5.0
>at home (on an upgraded 512 that couldn't handle System 6.0).  But instead of
>erasing the entire hard disk, I just trashed the hybrid system I got by
>attempting to use System 5.0's installer on top of System 6.0.

	I had the same problem.  I started out with System 5.0 and when I got
my hands on a copy of 6.0.1 I used the installer.  All of a sudden I was 
crashing left and right.  The one that really bugged me was being in the 
finder and doing NOTHING and the program would bomb!.  So I picked from my
backups, Always keep backups on major changes, system 5.0 and its related
stuff.  More bombs!!.  I got 6.0.2 and this time I removed all system files
that I could find in my system folder.  Then I used the installer for 6.0.2.
It worked and I am happily running without crashes, except the ones I 
involke myself.
	So, from my experience if you are going to install the new system
then junk all system files and install because the installer, while it makes
life easier, is not perfect.

Bruce Hoof
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