Ha Ha!
I once had to copy a complete OS 8.1 system file from one duo to another
over Localtalk. Here's a picture of the screen when the Finder started the
copy:
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mjanello/systemcopy.jpgut for some reason it doesn't
seem to work -- every expension is
>installed anyway. However, it is not even closer to the 17 hours you
>experienced.
>
>Igor
>
>
>> One thing I can definately not reccomend is to try installing over a
>serial
>> appletalk link - I had to do it once because of a corrupted system and no
>> scsi dock cable - it took 17 hours...
>>
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