[haiku-development] Re: Installing Haiku to a partition from Linux and updating?

  • From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:57:38 -0500

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.

Regards,

Rene

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