Re: OT: Seed installation strategy
Re: OT: Seed installation strategy
- Subject: Re: OT: Seed installation strategy
- From: David Sinclair <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 17:23:59 -0800
On Dec 7, 2003, at 16:30, Tim Gogolin wrote:
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...
That does sound like a good, simple arrangement. I too use LaunchBar
(it's very useful).
One possible issue: if you have the Apple apps installed /Applications
on both partitions, could it launch the wrong one sometimes? I'm not
sure whether it would prioritize launches, to always use an app in
/Applications before looking elsewhere.
Another strategy I've come across is to have a separate partition for
applications, and create a symbolic link, or LABEL in /etc/fstab, to
make it appear on the boot partition. This seems to fail in some
situations, though.
Thanks for your reply.
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