[haiku-development] Re: Making updated partition bootable
- From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:33:03 -0700
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.
-scottmc
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