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Article #799Re: Solution to the Network/Boot Disk/Font Problem?
From: David Hom
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1989 03:38
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1989 03:38
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In article <5065@umd5.umd.edu> zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes: >> We have a Mac network here (using MacJANET) and one of our biggest >> problems is having insufficient room on the boot disks we distribute >> to put anything more than a small selection of fonts and DAs. > >At the MacWorld here in Washington one of the educational users described a >scheme where a Suitcase on the boot disk allowed the fonts and DAs to reside >on a central server machine. They had removed a critical resource from the >Suitcase file to prevent it from appearing in the Apple menu. If there is >interest I'll dig out my notes and post a reference... >-- I would love more info on the subject. Right now, we are using System 4.2 as boot disks on our network to save disk space. It would be great to use 6.0.3 and have plenty of fonts available for use :-) David dhom@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!polyslo!cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu!dhom From: dhom@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (David Hom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Solution to the Network/Boot Disk/Font Problem? Summary: I'd love to know more ... Message-ID: <12179@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 29 Jun 89 03:38:56 GMT References: <570@levels.sait.edu.au> <1976@aucs.UUCP> <5065@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: news@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU Reply-To: dhom@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu.UUCP (David Hom) Distribution: usa Lines: 19