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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: CMS / GS/OS / Startsound question
Message-ID: <27980@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 18:09:21 GMT
References: <8903271506.AO00042@adam.DG.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8903271506.AO00042@adam.DG.COM> KAHN%void.mceo.dg.com@relay.cs.net writes:
>I couldnt install from the System Tools disk as evertime I 
>tried, it would pop up an alert box and say "File not found" but 
>wouldnt tell me which one.

This happened to me once.  As it turned out, I had used the Finder to make
a file-by-file copy of /SYSTEM.TOOLS and /SYSTEM.DISK, and was trying to
install from that.  But the Installer script requires the file FINDER.DEF, so
that new users have some Finder defaults.  In a file-by-file copy, Finder
doesn't copy it's own data files, so the copied disks wound up missing a
file the script wanted to Install.

Actually, this happened to me one day before 4.0 was supposed to go Golden
Master, on a Saturday.  Caused some of the Apple II System Software people to
get worried enough to come in on Saturday morning to track it down.   You
should have heard the combination relief/annoyance when they found it wasn't
a GS/OS or Installer bug.  [Hee hee hee...]

>                              Bruce (KAHN@ADAM.DG.COM)
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