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- From: halvers@procyon.crd.ge.com (Pete Halverson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: **IMPORTANT** 7.1 installer quirk
- Keywords: 7.1 installer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.140802.1016@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:08:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.045118.29142@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- Reply-To: halverson@crd.ge.com (Pete Halverson)
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- In article <1992Dec22.045118.29142@cc.umontreal.ca> parej@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Pare Jerome) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.220659.15042@nmsu.edu> you write:
- >>I upgraded from 7.0.1 to 7.1 and discovered something interesting.
- >>If you just use the installer to move up to 7.1 (as opposed to a
- >>'clean' install) the installer leaves the system fonts in the system FILE
- >>instead of removing them.
- ...
- >Pardon me if I'm wrong, but are you sure that you can do a clean install
- >from the 7.0.dot to 7.1 upgrade kit?
-
- No problem, I did it last night without a hitch (I was too gutless to risk
- having something screw up and leave me without an intact sys folder). It
- just requires that you first "hide" the 7.0.x system folder (by renaming it
- and moving the Finder to a subfolder). Boot from the installer disk and
- the resulting installation is squeaky clean.
-
- >Personally, I don't think so cause if it's possible, then I bought the
- >wrong product (6.0.x to 7.1 upgrade). I bought the latter essentially to
- >be able to do a "clean" upgrade, despite the higher price tag, so could
- >you please confirm this to me?
-
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