On 2004.6.15, at 06:08 AM, Bill Stephenson wrote:
On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
I'm curious - is reinstalling the OS a common troubleshooting technique for older MacOS versions? I'm a fairly recent switcher myself. I purchased my first Mac expressly to run Mac OS X DP4.
Yes, it certainly was for Systems 7-8. Clean System install,
And there was that sweet spot where the system only took half an hour to re-install. When we were working in that sweet spot, re-installing made eminent sense.
But that sweet spot would go away. Apple would add necessary functionality, and, of course, we would add apps and extensions so that it would consume a whole half a day to re-install the system and apps.
I always that those half-day re-installs were terrible, until I starting helping with MSWnt4 or OS2Warp installs at work.
then install apps one at a time until a failure (conflict) occurs. The "Extensions Manager" helped a bit, but I always shied away from using it and learned to manage conflicts manually instead.
I started using the extensions manager to move everything out of the extensions folder before installs. Then I could compare what the app installed with what had already been in place. Leaving only the most recent version of extensions and disabling as many Microsoft extensions as I could was usually pretty effective.
I used to restart my 6100 and then my 8600 several times a day just to avoid System freezes. You could just feel one coming on after a bit. I sure don't miss that. System 9 was a pretty big improvement, but after several years my 8600 started acting weird and now it surely needs a clean install to make things work again.
YDL? NetBSD?
;-)
