It appears to function ok, until something happens to corrupt the file.
I have discovered that the System 7.5 installer and subsequent updaters fail to work properly when the system is booted from MacOS 9. I was confounded for over 12 hours this weekend by bizzare failures of the installers/updaters when trying to bring some Mac LC II's up to 7.5.5. The installer refused to complete the installations, reporting errors in the about the same location each time. The failures occured when running the installer from hard disk file as well as from the CD media. If you chose to re-attempt the installation/update, and manually bypass the alleged "bad file" via the "custom installation" option, the installation would procede, but eventually encounter additional "bad files." Installing components one at a time did not completely work either - some were just not installable. When I switched the boot disk to 8.5 from another HD, or 7.5 from a CD and rebooted, the installations proceded without incident.
On 01/24/2000 04:38 AM, John Agapitos wrote:
>So does Suzie work ok under os9 after you trash the prefs file. What >else should we look for when upgrading to os9? > > > > >On 23/1/00 4:51 AM, Daniel O'Leary wrote: > >>Forwarded from an email I got from Syd Sellers: >> >>> >>>>I got your new version of Suzie 2.0 a few weeks back and it worked fine >>>>...However, I just updated to a G4 with OS9 and man does it hate Suzie!!! >>>> >>>>Crash and burn is a nice way of putting it...I had to reinstall the system to >>>>get things back on the air. >>>> >>>>Have you had any trouble with it??? >> >>My Response: >> >>Syd: >> >>Trash the Suzie Prefs file next time Suzie crashes. I have noted that >>the prefs file gets hosed and Suzie bombs upon every launch. This >>happened when I installed OS 9 here too. I pointed out that the prefs >>file needed to be deleted for use with OS 9 in my prior posting in >>TeleFinder.Utilities. >> >> --- Daniel O'Leary, Admin/WebMaster KloneZone - A TeleFinder 5.7 BBS Voice=> 817-367-2558 Dial-In=> 817-367-2712 Fidonet=> 1:130/1015 TFNet=> klonezone.tfnet.org Internet=> kz.eaze.net WWW=> http://kz.eaze.net
