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In article <1d2cxd7.1owk3v91jww25eN@p47.nas2.is3.u-net.net>,

>> >From: Rebecca and Rowland
>> >Organization: The Pietertje Geeltje van der Sluis fan club
>> 
>> Never heard of him (?)
>
>I can tell - it's a her.

Oops :-)

>> In my dreams mate. I have 4 rows of extensions at startup.
>
>Clearly careful in your choice of extensions (either that, or a very
>small monitor ;-)

I say, steady on. It's not good form to poke fun at the size of my monitor.
Actually it's a Sony 15" @1020*something or other.

>Ah...  There was quite a lot that needed changing going from 7.1 to 7.6;

Didn't do that on this machine, obviously since it won't run less than
7.5.2, but on my old IIvx I went from 7.1 to 7.5 then to 7.6, again, I
don't remember all that hassle.

>Some things like SuperClock could simply be dropped; others like
>MenuDropper broke and needed replacing (this is from memory).  A long
>slow tedious process of testing each extension, fiddling around, maybe
>finding a new one, etc.  And then it took *much* longer to deal with the
>flaky system I had afterwards - solved (in the end) by zapping the PRAM,
>something I'd not had to do before.

I must have been very lucky, although then the 'vx only had about 5 megs so
I tended not to run almost any extensions.

>> As far as Apple installers go, I tend to do custom installs whenever
>> possible to avoid the problems you mention, 
>
><gritted teeth>  It was the custom install using the 7.6 installer that
>dumped the crap in my System Folder - it just ignored what I told it to
>do and installed every bloody thing in sight, for PowerPC Macs and all
>(I've got a 60LC040 Perform 475).  The standard install was much better.

Heh, heh. Sorry to hear that. 

>Installling System 7.6 took me several hours in the first place, several
>hours on a subsequent day to deal with the various broken and obsolete
>extensions etc., and much longer than that to find out which things I
>could safely remove from the extensions folder.  Maybe if you've gone
>from 7.5 to 7.5.x to 7.6 you won't have had any problems like going from
>7.1 to 7.6.  And maybe the custom install actually *works* on PPCs.

As you say, maybe I was lucky in the way I upgraded or maybe you were
unlucky. Either way, at least going from 7.6 to 8 is painless. I'm quite
looking forward to 8.1 now too, although I'd expect that to break a few
bits'n'bobs.


Gordon


One of these days I'm going to think of a decent sig line