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Bolkonskij
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on: December 10, 2024, 13:43
If you work with modern Macs from the Tim Cook era, you know how obnoxious it can get to downgrade their OS. There appears to be a certain strategy or at least acknowledgement in place that by making alternatives hard for users they'll probably accept whatever you throw in their way. Even if it means sluggish performance for them. How nicely System 7 differs from that! I could probably post this in a thread "happy moments with System 7" but here is what I just did within a 10 minute timeframe: - Had a U.S. System 7.1.2 running on my IIci - Since the kids want to use the IIci and they don't speak English I decided to downgrade to a German 7.1.1 - Downloaded the respective images, mounted them with Disk Copy and just started the installer from it while on the U.S. 7.1.2. - Got a warning that I was about to install an older version of the OS. I clicked "continue" and you know what? It just went ahead and installed the German 7.1.1 over the existing 7.1.2 while running it. It did WHAT I WANTED. - Rebooting - everything done, everything being there. Let's continue working on it. - Apple Menu items are gone but I naturally had made a backup of my U.S System Folder so it's just a matter of copy & paste. Still, this is how downgrading (or upgrading, for that matter) of an operating system should work on a Mac. Any Mac! |
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snes1423
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256 MB  Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina
Reply #1 on: December 10, 2024, 16:12
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at one point before Lion you could install the specific build of osx on your mac too
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