How To Install System7

HOW TO INSTALL SYSTEM 7 Follow the instructions in this booklet to install the latest version of Macintosh system software on your computer's hard disk. You will need - a Macintosh computer with a hard disk drive, a floppy disk drive, and at least 2 megabytes of random-access memory (RAM) - the floppy disks included in your upgrade kit Use the Disk Labeled Before You Install System 7 To ensure a smooth upgrade to the new system software, it's important that you use the disk labeled Before You Install System 7. The disk - introduces the new features of system software - checks the software already on your hard disk for compatibility with System 7 - automatically removes from your System Folder any items that may not be compatible with System 7 With your computer turned on, follow these steps: 1. Insert Before You Install System 7 into a floppy disk drive. 2. Open the disk icon. Double-click the icon, or select the icon and choose Open from the File menu. 3. Open the stack named Before You Install System 7. Optional: Take a Look at the New Features If you like, you can take some time now to see a preview of the new features of system software. (If you want to install the new software right away, skip to the instructions on the next page.) To learn about the new features, follow these steps: 1. On the contents card of the Before You Install stack, click the option titled "What's New in System 7." A list of topics appears. Click any topic to see information about it. 2. When you're finished browsing through the new features, click Contents. You return to the contents card of the Before You Install stack. Important: Check Your Hard Disk for Compatibility It's possible that some of the programs on your computer's hard disk may not be compatible with the new system software. Therefore, you should check your system to make sure it is compatible. To examine your system, follow these steps: 1 On the contents card, click Compatibility Checker. 2. If you see a dialog box with a button labeled Copy, click the Copy button. The welcome screen for the Compatibility Checker appears. If you see a button labeled Set Up: Click the Set Up button, then choose which disks you want to check. 3. Click Start Checking. The Compatibility Checker begins to scan your system. Messages report the progress of the scan. If Necessary: Move Incompatible Items Out of the System Folder If the Compatibility Checker finds incompatible or unknown items in the System Folder of your start up disk, you'll see the message "Attention: Potential Problems With System Folder Items." (If you don't see this message, skip to the instructions on the next page.) - To move potentially incompatible items out of your System Folder, click Move Items. The Compatibility Checker creates a new folder on the desktop named May Not Work With System 7 and automatically moves all potentially incompatible items from the System Folder into the May Not Wor…