vita@oxford.dab.ge.com (Mark Vita) (10/16/90)
After upgrading my Mac II from System 6.0.3 to System 6.0.5 this weekend, I noticed a minor bit of strangeness: the Apple atop my Apple menu is black, instead of multicolored like it used to be. The odd thing is, if I boot off the 6.0.5 System Tools floppy, I do get the multicolored Apple. At first I thought maybe something had gone amiss patching the 6.0.3 files to 6.0.5, so I completely erased the System Folder on the hard disk and tried again--same result. I did check the Monitors cdev and the display was indeed set to 256 colors. No other INITs were present. By the way, I installed using the "Minimal system software for the Macintosh II" option. Anyone have a clue as to what might be causing this? I fear it may be indicative of some greater evil lurking somewhere. Besides, I liked my rainbow Apple :-). Thanks in advance for any clues you can provide... -- Mark Vita vita@sunny.dab.ge.com Advanced Engineering GE Simulation and Control Systems Daytona Beach, FL
keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC) (10/17/90)
In article <6253@ge-dab.GE.COM>, vita@oxford.dab.ge.com (Mark Vita) writes... >After upgrading my Mac II from System 6.0.3 to System 6.0.5 this >weekend, I noticed a minor bit of strangeness: the Apple atop my Apple >menu is black, instead of multicolored like it used to be. > <omitted> >By the way, I installed using the "Minimal system software for the >Macintosh II" option. Bingo. Minimal installations omit (among other things) color support. It is generally intended that you use this for things like fitting Disinfectant onto a bootable system floppy, or disk recovery tools, etc. For things like this you don't need color. The minimum installations also omit all support for patches needed by other ROM sets, meaning you can't copy the system file to a different cpu; you have to install again. Just reinstall with the main install script, instead of the "minimal" script.
ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/17/90)
Very, very simple. The color apple is actually a color icon stored in the system. You installed the minimal system, which considers the color icon a frivolty and leaves it out. So, ha! Just look it up on the system tools disk and paste it into your minimal system.
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (10/18/90)
In article <6253@ge-dab.GE.COM> vita@oxford.dab.ge.com (Mark Vita) writes: >After upgrading my Mac II from System 6.0.3 to System 6.0.5 this >weekend, I noticed a minor bit of strangeness: the Apple atop my Apple >menu is black, instead of multicolored like it used to be. >By the way, I installed using the "Minimal system software for the >Macintosh II" option. The minimal system software option doesn't include the color apple-- it's extraneous. It also doesn't have the color 'picasso mac' on the boot screen. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.
vita@oxford.dab.ge.com (Mark Vita) (10/18/90)
This is me again, responding to my own message about the monochrome apple icon after upgrading to 6.0.5. Several people sent me e-mail and identified the "minimal" script as the culprit; apparently this script leaves out "frivolous" items such as color Apple icons. Some people suggested that I re-install using the "full" option. However, I found that I could correct the problem by opening the System file on the System Tools disk with ResEdit and copying the "cicn" resources contained therein into the System file on my hard disk. BTW, there are actually two such cicn's: the aforementioned color apple, and also the little Macintosh logo that appears next to the "Welcome to Macintosh" message. Kind of irritating that the minimal script leaves those out to save such a piddling amount of space. Anyone know of any other things I might be surprised to find are missing (other than the obvious things like Multifinder, DA Handler, Backgrounder, etc.)? My conclusion from all this is that there really should be another category of installer scripts, that will install a machine-specific version of the system software, but that will include *full functionality* (Multifinder, color icons, the whole bit). You can't do this automatically as it stands now. If you choose "System software for the Macintosh <xxx>", you get a System that can be booted on any Mac. I assume, therefore, that the System file contains patches and whatnot for other machines, which I would rather not have consuming space on my internal hard disk (which will never be booted on another machine). If you choose "Minimal system software for the Macintosh <xxx>", you do get a System file without (I assume) unneeded patches, etc., but you also don't get Multifinder, DA Handler, the aforementioned color icons, etc.; if you want these you need to manually copy them from the System floppies. My impression is that Apple would like to discourage people from doing manual copies (hence the Installer). Ah well, just had to get that off my chest. Thanks again to all who responded to my query... -- Mark Vita vita@sunny.dab.ge.com Advanced Engineering GE Simulation and Control Systems Daytona Beach, FL