jprice@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) (03/21/90)
I installed system 6.0.5 last night on my Mac+, and I had some
problems. I solved them, and in retrospect, I should have forseen them.
The problems stemmed from (I believe) running init cdev on my hard disk.
Installer didn't like the fact that Easy Access and Responder were not
Startup Documents, but Documents. I think this is due to the way init cdev
handles startup documents. This has been talked about before, but I didn't
listen to most of it :(
Anyway, I was able to get around this by removing both Easy Access
and Responder (which I don't use anyway), and replacing them with the new
copy from the distribution. Then, Installer worked fine.
Now, I'm sure that there's a better way... (here come the flames!)
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Where there is no solution, there is no problem.mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) (03/22/90)
Unfortunately, there's no way to make the installer cooperate with init cdev. However, that's a feature, not a bug. init cdev changes the file types of the files you turn off so that they aren't opened by init 31 on startup. Installer won't overwrite a file if its type is not what it expects, because it must deal with the possibility that you've just named another file wrongly. So it asks you to deal with it. -- Mark Wilkins
ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) (03/26/90)
It sounds like "init cdev" needs a change in the way it works. In current versions of the System, there is a flag bit called "no inits" that you can set, for example with ResEdit 1.2. If the INIT 31 code sees that this bit is set, it won't try to open the file to execute any INITs in it (ha ha). It also sets it itself, after opening a file which might contain INITs, only to find that there aren't any. I imagine that setting this bit shouldn't upset the Installer. Lawrence D'Oliveiro Computer Services Dept, University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand Mike Murray, Macintosh Marketing Manager, moves to Microsoft.