philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (05/23/91)
The new Installer seems to be designed with the assumption that you want to use it to install on your machine's hard disk - the instructions in the manual start with You begin the installation procedure with your Macintosh turned off. This makes sense if you are updating your own startup disk, but what if you just want to make a bootable diskette for someone else? I tried this without rebooting and it works, except every now and then after the Installer ejects a disk, someone else (presumably the Finder) asks for it back. This is very confusing, because the Please Insert Disk message from the Finder does not appear in the same place as the Installer's message (the Finder's message assumes a 9" screen; the Installer centre's on whatever size screen you have). I don't think it's too unreasonable to want to run the installer without rebooting to do a simple install on something other than my startup disk. It would be nice if it not only worked but did so without glitches. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu