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Re: installing Dev tools on external drive(s)


On Oct 31, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

Straight from the Release Notes:

"The Xcode Developer Tools will install by default into /Developer,
but you may choose to install Xcode 3.0 anywhere on the system,
including on partitions other than the boot volume. When changing the
installation location, you must create a folder for the tools with the
"New Folder" button in the location chooser."

When you run the installer wizard, you see a "Change Install Location" button.
If you click that button, you get a listing of all drives connected to your machine.
All drives are X'd out and blocked from an install:

"You cannot install Xcode Tools on this volume. You can only install this software on the running Mac OS X volume."

There is NO button for creating a folder.

You can't GO BACK at this point. The "GO BACK" button is grayed out. You have to kill the installer.

When you relaunch the installer, you sometimes get the opportunity to click a CUSTOM install.
I say "sometimes" because sometimes the install wizard skips the "Destination Select" panel (maybe accepting too many mouse clicks? or my mouse is bad?). It jumps to Installation Type, but without the CUSTOM button, without the CHANGE INSTALL LOCATION button. All you see is a panel of drives connected to the machine.

After relaunching the installer again, and if the installer is moving panel to panel properly, instead of choosing the "Change Location Button" to change your install location, you choose the CUSTOMIZE button. Once in the custom panel, you can edit the "Location" column where you can navigate your connected drives by choosing "Other". You can then create a new folder or choose an existing folder.

I'm reminded of this quirkiness having run into a similar problem installing some of the audio samples for Logic Studio.

Well, installation is on its way just fine. No need to install on the "running Mac OS X volume".

Kevin






--Kyle Sluder

On 11/1/07, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> wrote: 

On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

My MBPro has less than 9 GB of free space. (100 G 7200 Rpm internal)

I have 5 drives hanging off of it - all Mac OS X Extended and some
journaled.

XCode 3.0 tools installer won't let me install on any of the
external drives.

Is there something I need to do to bless the drives for the dev tools? 

I think you can only install Xcode on the file system that contains
the actively running Mac OS X install. Of course you can install
multiple versions of Xcode now but I think the active system drive
requirement still applies.

-Shawn
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 >installing Dev tools on external drive(s) (From: Kevin Callahan <email@hidden>)
 >Re: installing Dev tools on external drive(s) (From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: installing Dev tools on external drive(s) (From: "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden>)



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