I don't doubt what you say, I am only saying that my AppleTalk connection
seems to work much faster. Regarding your picture: sometimes, usually at the
very beginning of a file transfer, I also get a message that it is going to
take more than a million (1) hours, but then the number goes down to about
2-3 hours. The actual install is a tad longer but no more than 3.5 hours.
I bought a Duo out of curiosity about 2 weeks ago and I have clean installed
every version of Mac OS I have around -- over Apple Talk. The server machine
is a StarMax3000 accelerated with Newer G3 card (360MZ?) running System 9.
These are my guinea pigs... ;-)
Igor
> 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.jpg
> Mark
>
> p.s. No, it didn't take nearly that long, but it was very shocking at
first!
>
> At 4:37 PM -0800 2/25/2000, PCIS wrote:
> >17 hours! Wow. I have installed System software 4 or 5 times recently
over
> >the serial AppleTalk connection. Takes from 2 to 3 hours. Yes, I used
custom
> >install but 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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