[haiku-development] Re: Making updated partition bootable
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:30:10 +0200
On 2009-08-27 at 03:31:06 [+0200], Michael Lotz <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Pete
>
> > 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).
>
> Yes the system should be mostly self-contained in there. Maybe you want
> to wipe-update common and develop as well. What you want to keep usually
> resides in home, which can mostly be left as is.
>
> > Maybe the Installer could do that (warning the user first), as
> > update-installs are likely to be fairly frequent with Haiku for a while!
>
> There was a discussion about that once. Not sure about the exact outcome,
> but wipeing system is always safe (as the user is not supposed to mess
> with it and if he does he's at fault; of course it'd still be
> documented), wiping common and develop could be done after asking IMO.
Hm. I really thought I implemented wiping the /system. And even tested
that... I need to check, this is supposed to work.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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