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In article <1614@emory.UUCP>, riddle@emory.UUCP (Larry Riddle) types:
> I am trying to install system 3.1.1 using the installer that came on
> the System Installation disk from the "December 85" supplement.  When
> I start the installer I get the option of installing
> "Macintosh Plus (v 1.1b1)".
> When I click this and try to install it on a disk, I get the message
> 
>    File "System" on System Installation is not the right
>    date for "Macintosh Plus (v 1.1b1)
> 
> This is version 2.1 of the installer.  If I try using version 2.0
> to install system 3.1.1, I get the same error message.  Yet I have
> used version 2.0 of the installer to install system 3.0.
> 
> What's going on?  Which is the "bad" system, version 3.0 or 3.1, that
> the warnings have been posted about?  Has anyone else had trouble using
> the installer from the December 85 supplement?
> 
As most of you are probably (now) aware, the Installer (well, at least any
version that I've seen--I haven't tried the new one I got with 5.3/3.2) is
incompatible with System file 3.1.1.  Rumor has it that this is the reason
why Apple is insisting that Finder 5.1/System 3.0 are the 'currently supported'
versions.  System file 3.0 was supposed to have problems trashing itself, and
System 3.1 didn't really work at all.  I feel safer using Apple's 'unsupported'
system than using the other two that have known bugs (of course, 3.1.1 could
have some problems that they're not telling us, but I haven't seen any in the
6 weeks or so I've been using it).  And, never bother with the installer,
just remove the fonts/da's in your current system that you want, and then
replace the Finder/System on your disk--I've heard of MANY bad stories
about the Installer.

Robert J. Hammen     {seismo,allegra,ihnp4,harvard,topaz}!uwvax!gumby!hammen
UW-Madison CS Dept.   hammen@gumby.wisc.edu
UW-Madison Plasma Physics Dept.     plasma%wiscpsl.bitnet {@wiscvm.wisc.edu}
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