Re: Installing Office....

From: Ray Arachelian <ray_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:53:43 -0400

unity wrote:
> Not going to rule that out. But how is it that MacWorks installs and
> copies files just fine. I can still boot to it, install Mac stuff and
> it *seems* to run just fine. Is there something the Lisa OS can read
> from the drive hardware that is ignored by the Mac system? Some sort
> of threshold?
>
Yes, it's based on the number of already spared blocks. If it sees 32 (I think) it'll refuse to install.
The idea is that if there's no more free blocks to spare, it's unsafe to install as any more bad blocks means file system errors.

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