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- From: Greg Ferguson <rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com>
- Subject: Re: FTPed system upgrade
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.181250.3245@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- References: <1992Sep10.031523.28356@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:12:50 GMT
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- Subject: FTPed system upgrade
- From: Eric J. Lorenzo, lorenzo@spot.Colorado.EDU
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:15:23 GMT
- In article <1992Sep10.031523.28356@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Eric J. Lorenzo,
- lorenzo@spot.Colorado.EDU writes:
- >I just FTPed what I believe to be the system upgrades for system 6.0.8
- from
- >ftp.apple.com. The two files I got are called:
- > system-additions-image.hqx
- > system-startup-image.hqx
- >
- >My questions are:
- >-Do I need to put these two on seperate floppies or can I install them
- directly
- > form my hard drive? If not, how can I just 'put' them on floppies and
- have
- > them work right?
- >
- >-Is 6.0.8 the most recent system 6 Apple came out with before system 7?
- I'm
- > still using 6.0.1 on my SE and don't think upgrading to system 7 will
- be all
- > that advantageous for my machine.
- >
- >I'm not quite sure what I am doing, so any ideas, suggestions,
- instructions
- >will be appreciated if you can E-mail me.
- >
- >Thanks in advance
- >-Eric
- >--
-
- You retrieved two 1.4M disk images. You need DiskCopy (available from the
- same source) to read the .image files and recreate the 1.4M disk
- floppies.
-
- Programs exist that will let you mount the .image files as read-only
- floppies, but I wouldn't recommend that practice when installing system
- software. I've not tested it but if something went wrong when writing
- the system files, you'd not be able to boot your drive.
-
- 6.0.8 is the most recent 6.0 series o/s. It has the system 7 print
- drivers already incorporated. If you're running an SE, I'd stick with
- 6.0.8. It's not as memory hungry as 7.0. You'll miss the new features
- of 7.0, but will retain some speed.
-
- Regards,
-
- Greg
-
- gregf@shaman.sps.mot.com
- rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com
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