[45] in installers
Re: Eudora 3.02 & Tether (further testing)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott G. McGuire)
Fri Mar 21 09:58:23 1997
In-Reply-To: <v0302090baf5773076fab@[18.81.0.167]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:57:45 -0500
To: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
From: "Scott G. McGuire" <smcguire@MIT.EDU>
Cc: installers@MIT.EDU, pragone@MIT.EDU
Alicia Allen <iggy@mit.edu> wrote:
>I used another PB 520, It is System Soft 7.5.1, MacTCP
>I tried it with both MacPPP 2.1.3SDb3 (it was on the computer)
>and with MacPPP 2.1.2SD (what we distribute)
>and they both dropped the connection to Tether immediately
>upon clicking on the "Close all open applications..." window.
Okay, thanks for the further data. We're going to try to test it ourselves
with various (old) PPP variants too.
>My coworker tried it on a PM 7600/120, OS 7.6 & OT 1.1.2
>with OT/PPP and a Motorolla Power 28.8.
>His connection did not drop when he clicked on the close
>all open applications window. However, during the installation
>he got the error:
>"An error has occurred. THe install cannot continue.
>MacBinary error -24568
>creating file Toshiba"
Did he try again? Was this error reproducible every time?
Basically it's saying it had trouble decoding the file "Toshiba", which is
an extra settings file, after it downloaded it. This file's been
downloaded a lot of times in my testing so I don't think the net-dist copy
is bad.
>He's going to put MacPPP on the 7600 tomorrow and try that as well.
Please forward the results...
As I said before (but haven't posted to the installers mailing list), I
tested the Eudora installer over PPP with a PowerMac 7100/66, System 7.5.5,
OT 1.1.2, and FreePPP 2.5v2 and didn't have any problems.
>Also, would it be possible to say in the readme window of the installer
>how long the installation takes over Tether? Clients get frustrated
>when they dont realize that an installation make take as long as a
>half hour or more.
That might not be a bad idea. Clients can also minimize their time by
using the custom install option and only downloading the apps and support
files, not things like the documentation (which takes up a major chunk of
the download time). But I know most people will use Easy Install without
thinking about it.
--Scott McGuire / smcguire@mit.edu
