[haiku-development] Re: Making updated partition bootable

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:10:47AM +0000, Michael Lotz wrote:
> Hi Pete
> 
> Just to make sure, you have nothing laying around from the old install, 
> right? If you only copy over the new stuff and leave the old stuff in 
> place you can end up having both ATA and IDE installed. That's not a 
> good situation.

Gaahh... I never learn, do I?  (:-()  Yes, that was the problem.

The difficulty is that there's always stuff already on the partition
that I'd rather keep, so my first thought is an overlay.  [But I've
been bitten before, so I should know by now.]

I guess all one really needs to make sure is erased is the previous
system hierarchy (which is what I did this time, and it seems OK).
Maybe the Installer could do that (warning the user first), as
update-installs are likely to be fairly frequent with Haiku for
a while!
(I also copied over only the new 'system', so there are little things
like broken links, but so far nothing fatal or unobvious.  I'll just
do a full Install now, which should fix those.)

Thanks!

-- Pete --

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