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- From: jeremyr@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: INIT for picking system?? Wanted!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.190558.16160@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 19:05:58 GMT
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- In <unruley.716333223@mcl> unruley@mcl.ucsb.edu (Kriss Boyce) writes:
-
- >I am looking for an INIT that allows you to pick which system file to use
- >at startu...ie.from 6.0.7 or 7.0.whatever....what I am trying to do is
- >avoid [artitioning my hard drive. If you know where I can FTP one or can
- >buy one, PLEASE let me know if it even exists.
-
- I think that by the time an INIT is run at startup, it's too
- late to change systems. However, there are a few programs which
- let you "bless" a new system folder, so the next startup will
- be from that folder. I find the most useful to be System
- Picker, a small application. I forget where I found it:
- probably sumex. It's by Kevin Aitken, of Apple.
-
- As an aside, if you're planning to run systems 6 and 7 on the
- same disk (and it seems perfectly safe to me, despite what
- others have said in the past), I strongly recommend you install
- a copy of the Desktop Manager INIT in your system 6 system
- folder. This prevents the need for system 7 to rebuild your
- desktop after you've run system 6.
-
- Jeremy
-