[haiku-development] Re: Questions from Haiku novice
- From: Markku Hyppönen <make.hypponen@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:37:38 +0300
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 19:14 +0200, Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> On 2010-04-18 at 18:19:17 [+0200], PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Le Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:14:41 +0200, Markku Hyppönen
> > <make.hypponen@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
> >
> > > I quess I have to do this upgrade several time in a future. Though, I'm
> > > running Haiku in a laptop which can't boot from usb drive. Should I burn
> > > cd every time I want to upgrade or is there any other way to do this?
> > >
> > > I found this from haiku web site:
> > >
> > > # under BeOS to partition X on the master on the first channel
> > > dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/disk/ide/ata/0/master/X
> > >
> > > Can I use this method to upgrade alpha1 to latest nightly build?
> > >
> > > Markku
> >
> > It is also possible to build haiku directly to a partition using "jam -q
> > install-haiku", if you set the proper settings in your userbuildconfig
> > (don't have them at thand here, sorry). This seems a bit broken at the
> > moment with libstdc++ and libsupc++ not getting copied to the new image,
> > but I expect this to be solved soon.
>
> While some people do that, it is not recommended to update Haiku in-place
> ATM. Personally I recommend having 1. a partition with a system from which
> you build Haiku (Linux, FreeBSD, or even Haiku). 2. a small partition for
> Haiku itself, 3. an arbitrarily large partition for the data you work with
> under Haiku. This way you can cleanly update your Haiku partition (2.) at
> any time without needing to worry about your data. If you copy your
> settings files to the data partition you can specify in your
> UserBuildConfig to copy them when building a new Haiku version (the MIME
> database is always overwritten, though).
>
> CU, Ingo
>
Thanks, I have to consider that.
Markku
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