kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Ken Wallich) (11/03/87)
My sincerest apologies if this has been covered before, but if it was, I didn't see it. I just got my MacII :-) :-) :-), and have finder v5.5 on it. The problem I am having is setting the startup application on a floppy. It don't work! If I try to "set startup" to anything other than the finder (the minifinder won't even work), then when I try and boot from that disc, it smiles, then spits it out. My version of hypercard works fine (it boots up and starts hypercard), and if I copy it's system folder to another disc, that disc will boot hypercard. If I try to "set startup" to hypercard myself, thought, it doesn't do it! Is my Mac braindamaged? Am I? Is my Finder/System? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give. -------------------- Ken Wallich *My views are mine, and mine alone* Consultant "Camelot! Camelot! -- It's only a model" DCI kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM @Hewlett Packard ...hplabs!hpsmtc1!kwallich
andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C.Esh) (11/14/87)
I was having problems with setting startup too. I would set it, and the Finder would report being unable to open "Finder Startup", but the setting would take effect. In my System folder, I found the file "Finder Startup vB6", which I discovered the Finder was able to create if it was missing, but I still had problems. Apple updated me to Finder 6.0/System 4.2, and now there are no problems. Even Multifinder works great. (By the way, the Option-Command "About MultiFinder" easter egg was a good laugh. Thanks, whoever it was that posted the tip.)