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- From: jeffc@comb1.comb.umd.edu (Jeff Clowser; IRG)
- Subject: Re: Startup floppies for System 7.1... help!
- Message-ID: <18NOV199214394656@comb1.comb.umd.edu>
- Summary: 7.1 on a floppy leaves no room for anything else!
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- Organization: University of Maryland, Center of Marine Biotechnology
- References: <1992Nov18.111650.29308@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:39:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.111650.29308@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jay Elmore) writes...
- >In an effort to help eradicate an outbreak of vNir and other viruses on my
- >campus, I'm trying to create a
- >startup floppy that I can put Disinfectant 2.9 onto. I'm using System 7.1
- >because that's what I'm running, and I know System 7 will work on all of
- >the computers I'm making this for. (some LC IIs, a Classic II, etc.)
- >
- >However, the "Min system for all Macs" that the installer makes takes up
- >1350, leaving 40-odd K to put other stuff on. To make matters worse,
- >Disinfectant is 333K... obviously something has to give.
- >Does anybody know what I can remove from the System file? Or do I have to
- >bite the bullet and dig out my old 7.0.1 floppies...
- >
- >Thanks!
- >
- >Jay (=
- >(btw, email responses to johnel@audrey.linfield.edu would be appreciated,
- >as get to me faster than to the address in the header...)
-
- You can always just distribute the Disinfectant init on the floppy containing
- the min system folder - it's about 6k. If they start up with it installed
- on that, they're protected. The application can be distributed on another
- floppy, in case they want to scan. (Not real convenient with only one drive,
- but that can't be helped...) If they have a hard drive, just give them the
- App, and have them install the init with that.
-
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- Jeff Clowser "A keyboard... how quaint"
- JeffC@comb1.comb.umd.edu
- Network Administrator, Macintosh Technical Support
- Information Resources Group, Maryland Biotechnology Institute
- University of Maryland
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