Re: Stupid Installer program

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From: Phil Ryals
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1989 02:39

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In article <SPENCER.89Mar10104026@spline.eecs.umich.edu> 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.

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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: <SPENCER.89Mar10104026@spline.eecs.umich.edu>
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Organization: DCA Inc/Cohesive Network Systems, Los Gatos, CA
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