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Re: Anybody have luck installing 7B49?

On 8/29/03 10:32 AM, Pietrzak, Bryan didst favor us with:

> Larry,
>
> That's quite a burden on the installer team...you're asking them to build
> installer scripts that know how to deal with files added, changed or removed
> for each build of Panther, or at least each public build.
>
> Why not just install Panther on one disk and then use NetInfo to change your
> login on Panther to point to a Home folder on another disk?
>
> I think it would be a terrible waste of resources for Apple to support
> installing beta versions of Panther over older beta versions. The risk is
> too great that something will go wrong and nothing is gained: in the real
> world, no end user will be installing a beta over a beta. Likewise, the
> potential bug reports for something not working because it was a beta
> installed over a beta would further take away important resources just to
> verify that, in the end, the problem was nothing that would ever see the
> light of day in the real world. (Developers and seeds are not the real world
> ;)
>
> No, I think this is just one of those prices that you have to pay if you
> want to beta test an operating system.

I know all of this, but:

- I can guarantee you not everyone installing Panther is doing what you
suggest.

- You still have a substantially "start from scratch" system, and it's
entirely possible to have bugs in software that don't manifest themselves
until you've been using it a while.

- Whatever work this would require, it would be significantly fewer
man-hours than developers will spend doing erase installs or whatever they
have to do to install it. This is definitely one of those things where YMMV.

- I assume savvy people have systems set up and the knowledge to make this
relatively painless. But not everyone has that knowledge or the hardware
resources to do so.

FWIW, I *did* try an erase install of 7B49 on a partition of my internal
drive. The installation was successful, but it wouldn't complete the startup
process. So I then installed it on an external drive which I'm not willing
to erase because I use it for other things as well. It started up fine from
that drive. I don't know what was different other than journaling on the
volume that was erased. I accept the installation process once, but any more
than once and I'm not a happy camper. However, I prefer to install on an
external drive anyway since that lets me completely disconnect it from the
computer if I want to do that for any reason.

Larry
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