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From: sklein@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Install vs Copy
Message-ID: <141200007@cdp>
Date: 26 Feb 89 09:40:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!sklein    Feb 26 01:40:00 1989


>...when you run installer, it asks you what Mac
>you're using.  Why does it need to know?

Actually, it asks you what Mac you're installing the disk for.  Because
different macs have different resources in ROM.  For example, a system
disk configured in the 'minimum system' mode for the SE won't boot on a
plus, because it expects certain ROM routines from the SEs 256K ROM that
aren't in the MacPlus.  But if that disk is installed for a Plus, the
installer adds those routines to the disk.

It asks because you might be using a Mac II, but creating a disk for
someone else to use with a Mac Plus.  It doesn't need to ask you what
Mac you are running on.  It can find that out all by itself. 
-Shabtai Klein

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