Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!amdahl!dlb!zygot!cohesive!pryals From: pryals@cohesive.UUCP (Phil Ryals) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Stupid Installer program Summary: Use a RAM disk as the target. Message-ID: <471@cohesive.UUCP> Date: 18 Mar 89 02:39:58 GMT References: Reply-To: pryals@cohesive.UUCP (Phil Ryals) Organization: DCA Inc/Cohesive Network Systems, Los Gatos, CA Lines: 15 In article spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) writes: > [the stupid installer] installs things *ONE >RESOURCE AT A TIME*. That means a disk swap for every one of the >(hundreds of?) resources in the system file. This is an asinine way >to do things. ...... > >Will this problem ever be fixed, or should I resign myself to finding >a two floppy Mac whenever I want to make a new boot disk? I recently ran into the same problem trying to build a "minimum" system for a one-drive Mac+ using the installer. My solution was to install an 800K RAM disk, do the installer build on it, then copy the contents of the RAM disk to a floppy. This should probably work with a smaller RAM disk if only 1MB of RAM is available, so long as there's enough space for the size of system you are building.