We recieved a email from one of our reader that whe hope will inspire and help you...Upgrading made easy
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 10:50:15 -0700 From: Paul de Haan paul.dehaan@gandalf.ca Organization: Gandalf Nederland B.V. Mime-Version: 1.0 To: xxx@runtime.net Subject: Upgrading made easyL.S.
A report about an experience with upgrading my system - it turned out to be quite simple.
Started with: PM 7500 16/500/CD Dutch (NL) system s/w and an external SyQuest 44 Mb with the 7.5.3 update stuff.
0) Zapped the PRAM
1) Booted from the original system CD-rom
2) From the existing system folder, copied the items i wanted to preserve to a save location.
3) Trashed the system folder on the HDD
4) Made a new install of my 7.5.2 software
5) editted the #fld resource in the fresh installed system to reflect the US folder names and the STR resources to reflect things like "Built-in"
6) labeled all items in all folders inside the system folder red (to be able to recognize existing -localized- items)
7) made additional installs (powertalk in my case), labeled them with a different color....
8) ran the 7.5.3 update
9) checked all the changes made;
7.5.3 update creates the US folders with the appropriate (new) control panels, extentions, menu items etc.
Deleted all duplicated (localized) system s/w
10) renamed all localized items n/a in 7.5.3 to their US names
11) rebooted from the HDDPresto! It worked. No problems with audio and/or video whatsoever.
12) Made a backup on the SyQuest of the newly generated system 7.5.3!
The rest.... followed the remarks found with regards to the memory leak in OT etc. Installed MacPPP 2.5, and so PPP networking works fine.
Remarks/findings:
=> the 7.5.3 update seems to patch certain control panels and/or the control panels retrieve STR resources from the system or finder. Reason for thinking this is that the contents of the CP were US while the label was red...
=> The clean install of 7.5.2, followed by all updates, doesn't get a chance to create preference files, mark folders blessed etc. on a running system while the boot is from CD-ROM (or it may also be another external device)
This seems to prevent weird things happening....Hope this helps to get others "on the road" with 7.5.3 the fastest way.