6.0.1 CF2 MacOS installer is doing nasty things

I would have been beter off if I had not gotten it to partially work-

When I unStuffed the installer it appeared on my MacOS 9.2.4 machine as a folder, unlike the original installer that had an installer application icon. FileBuddy’s Get Info showed the “package bit” was checked, so it should appear as an application, not a folder. comparing the 6.0.1 CF2 package to the 6.0.1 package showed the only major difference was an alias to the installer application in the package’s MacOSClassic folder. I Cmd-Opt dragged the Installer to make the alias in the right place, and Presto - the folder icon immediately became the Installer icon.

I then fired up the installer, let it quit everything for me, even though it was not installing on the Startup Disk, then was confronted by an error dialogue saying that I should insert the Notes Install Disk. I canceled out, since I had no install disk - this was a download from the Passport site - and found it had removed all the files from my Lotus Notes folder except for (thankfully) my Data folder.

Was I supposed to burn the installer to a CD-ROM first, or create a disk image?

Subject: RE: 6.0.1 CF2 MacOS installer is doing nasty things

No, you shouldn’t have to burn a CD or anything – that’s the message you get when some file is missing from the installer. Either a bad download or something got lost when we made the kit. We’ll have to see if it was a problem on our end…

– Chris/IBM