home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!laidbak!tellab5!odgate!mike
- From: mike@uunet!tellab5!odgate (Mike J. Kelly)
- Subject: Installer Q: Installing CDEVs on volume w/o System Folder
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.234232.4857@uunet!tellab5!odgate>
- Organization: Odesta Corporation
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:42:32 GMT
- Lines: 27
-
-
- My product requires a CDEV to run. I'm a novice at Mac installer
- scripts, but took a run at it for our next release. Things seem
- to work pretty well, but I have one oddity that I believe there must
- be some way to work around.
-
- Suppose you have two volumes on your machine, one called "system" with
- your system folder and one called "data" without a system folder. I
- got my installer script to refuse to easy install on the "data" volume,
- since it includes a CDEV and there is no system folder there. However,
- if you click cusomize in the installer and select the package with the
- CDEV (I have two installer packages, one is the CDEV, since the CDEV
- is commercially available and so people may already have it, the other is my
- application), and select volume "data" it creates a blessed system
- folder on the "data" volume!
-
- How do I prevent this? Ideally, what I'd really like to do (I don't
- think this is possible) is have easy install put the CDEV in the
- system folder on whatever your boot volume is and put the application
- on the volume you selected. But at least it shouldn't be going around
- creating blessed system folders with only a CDEV in them!
-
- --
- --
- Mike Kelly Odesta Corporation, Northbrook, Illinois, USA
- ...!clout!odgate!mike - Until odesta.com is registered.
- odgate!mike@clout.uucp - From the Internet.
-