Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!yale!robertj From: robertj@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (Rob Jellinghaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Networking questions Message-ID: <20407@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 21:28:45 GMT References: <2280@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> <335@ndcheg.UUCP> <186@bacchus.DEC.COM> <13799@think.UUCP> <3203@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: robertj@yale.UUCP Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT Lines: 37 In article <3203@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes: >Okay, but does anyone want to tell me why you can't put multiple system >files on the same logical volume? Seems to me that the advice of not >having multiple systems is that its redudant and makes it difficult to tell >which folder is the real system folder -- but finder 6.0 and up will put a >little Mac icon on the current blessed folder so the only consideration >would seem to be a waste of space. Actually, this isn't true. The problem arises when you restart your Mac or run an application in a non-Multifinder environment. The Mac very often becomes confused about which System it should run, and restarts with the wrong one. This is the same phenomenon that happens with multiple floppies--the Mac will start running off the floppy with the current application on it. Unfortu- nately, the Mac's heuristic for determing which system to use fails if there are multiple Systems to choose from. I had many problems with this while trying to install the new System on my II (no, I don't use Installer, and don't flame me!); the computer would restart, come up with the happy mac, then the screen would fizzle and resolve into the disk with the blinking question mark. System 4.2/Finder 6.0 do NOT solve this problem. The only solution I have found to having multiple Systems on the same disk is to rename all but the one you want to run from (by duplicating them and tossing the original). >Christopher Chow >/---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ >| Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.248.35 or 128.84.253.35) | >| Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|ihnp4|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | >| Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | >| Phone: 1-607-253-6699, USPS: 7122 N. Campus 7, Ithaca, NY 14853 | >| Delphi: chow2 PAN: chow | >\---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Rob Jellinghaus | "Lemme graze in your veldt, jellinghaus@yale.edu.UUCP | Lemme trample your albino, ROBERTJ@{yalecs,yalevm}.BITNET | Lemme nibble on your buds, !..!ihnp4!hsi!yale!jellinghaus | I'm your... Love Rhino" -- Bloom County