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Article #14686Re: Possible bug in AppleShare, System 3.3/Finder 5.4
From: scott
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1987 01:34
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1987 01:34
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In article <809@crash.CTS.COM> dbw@pnet01.CTS.COM (David B Whiteman) writes:
>... Basically a Mac running AppleShare was being used to create new
>system startup discs with varoius fonts. ...
>... A blank disc was then
>formatted and a System 3.2 was dragged from a shared folder on the AppleShare
>volume to the blank disc. ...
>The resulting disc would not be able to boot a Mac; further analysis using
>Fedit + showed that the boot blocks were never written.
The boot blocks of an AppleShare server cannot be read (they are outside of
the volume). Finder 5.4 knows this and doesn't try to copy them which
causes the problem you describe. A work-around is to copy on a System file
from a non-AppleShare volume first.
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--scott douglass, Apple Computer
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