[haiku-development] Re: Installing Haiku to a partition from Linux and updating?
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:25:51 +0200
Rene Gollent wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I don't think we can currently only update the system folder and leave
> > everything else untouched. That might be something we want to change
> > in the future, though.
> > As a work-around, you can create a second image, boot from that one,
> > mount the first one, and replace the "beos" folder on the root level
> > of the first image.
>
> My personal workaround for this was to set everything up the way I like,
> zip up ~/config/settings, copy the zip file to my linux partition via
> bfs_shell, and then add a UserBuildConfig rule to unzip that file back to
> the image as part of the build process.
That's what I did too, though it would give certain problems with unzipping
that I didn't quite understand. Then I zipped each app's settings folder
individually and that worked like a charm.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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