Re: OT: Seed installation strategy
Re: OT: Seed installation strategy
- Subject: Re: OT: Seed installation strategy
- From: Tim Gogolin <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:30:20 -0600
David,
That strategy I (and a few coworkers) use is:
3 partitions
1) Primary OS (fairly minimal in size, about 10G)
2) Test OS (minimal in size; less than 10G)
3) Stuff (all remaining space; hopefully at least 30G)
On Stuff, I put the 'Users' directory (via some NetInfo magic)
Since this machine is typically intended for one person (me), I can
install all new programs in ~/Applications, so I don't need the OS
partition to be very large. This also lets me have access to all my
apps in whichever OS I happen to be booted into. This part of the
strategy won't work if you have multiple people using the machine and
they all need access to new apps. I leave all the Apple apps in
/Applications, which is where the OS installer put them.
Having two "Applications" directories in common use might be confusing,
but since I use LaunchBar (which knows about both locations), I don't
ever go looking for Apps in their installed location to launch them
anyway...
--
Tim Gogolin
On Dec 7, 2003, at 5:34 PM, David Sinclair wrote:
I am about to get a new G5 for my main production machine, and was
thinking about installation strategies for the OS and development
tools. In the past I have avoided installing seed releases on my main
production machine, as I can't afford for an issue with a pre-release
version to prevent me from working.
I was thinking about a dual boot strategy: have two partitions, one
for the current general release OS and dev tools, and another for the
current seed release OS and dev tools. If all is well, I'd boot from
the latter normally, but I'd have the former to fall back on if
necessary.
I'm unsure whether the /Applications/ and /Users/ directories should
be on the general or seed partitions, though... and whether or not
symbolic links on the other partition would make them work when
booting from that.
What do you all think of this? What do others do? Do you just risk
the seeds, or do you avoid them, or have some dual strategy? Any
advice would be much appreciated.
Any other thoughts on partitioning strategies would be welcome too --
e.g. I know some people like to have a separate partition for the swap
file. But I don't want to get too carried away.
--
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