[haiku-development] Re: Making updated partition bootable
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:35:25 +0200
On 2009-08-27 at 09:33:03 [+0200], scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Stephan Assmus<superstippi@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> If you made that change since May, then it may just be that Pete was
> using the older Installer that was on the system. And if you did make
> the fix, then his next update should be smoother.
Ah, of course, that explains things. Thanks, Scott!
Best regards,
-Stephan
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