OT: Seed installation strategy
OT: Seed installation strategy
- Subject: OT: Seed installation strategy
- From: David Sinclair <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 15:34:10 -0800
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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