Creating Installation Floppies

If you have access to a CD-ROM drive but it is not directly attached to the Macintosh on which you wish to install MCL, you install from floppy disks by using self-extracting archive segments provided on the MCL CD.

An installation of MCL 4.0 requires four disks and approximately 28 MB of free hard disk space. An installation of MCL 3.1 requires three disks and approximately 27 MB of free hard disk space.

The archive segments are located in the "MCL Floppy Disks" folder on the MCL CD. Each archive segment is stored in a separate folder within this folder. To create floppy installation disks, simply copy each archive segment folder to a floppy disk.

To install MCL on a hard disk using the newly created installation floppies, use the following steps:

Insert disk #1.
Double-click on the self-extracting archive application.
After a brief pause, Compact Pro(TM) will ask you to show it the "Final Segment" of the archive.
Eject disk #1.
Insert the last disk.
Select the last self-extracting archive segment and click on "Load".
Compact Pro will ask where you want to put the MCL folder.
Select an appropriate location on your hard disk for Compact Pro to put the folder, then click on "Extract".
Insert each disk as Compact Pro requests it.

Disk #4 also contains a Compact Pro utility called "Extractor". Use this program if you want to get a few of the files out of the archive without extracting the entire environment.

Gettmg Started with MCL - 19 OCT 1996

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