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Re: Ideas required on testing an application install


  • Subject: Re: Ideas required on testing an application install
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:48:15 -0700 (PDT)

If an new internal drive is not an option, partition and format an external USB and/or Firewire drive.  Make one partition for each of your target OSes and install them, one per partition.  Reboot and hold down the Option key.  Select the desired startup partition.  Enjoy.

Basically, any modern Mac can boot from either USB or Firewire.  The only limitation being that drive access times may be a bit sluggish, but they are generally acceptable.

Kevin

~Syntonica
[kraken release];


--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Ramakrishna Vavilala <email@hidden> wrote:

> From: Ramakrishna Vavilala <email@hidden>
> Subject: Ideas required on testing an application install
> To: "Cocoa Developers" <email@hidden>
> Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 11:04 AM
> I just finished converting
> (rewriting) a windows application to work
> on Mac OSX. I made a package for my application. Now I want
> to test it
> on a clean machine. In Windows I would normally create a
> clean Virtual
> Machine and install the application to make sure that
> everything is
> working properly on a clean machine.
>
> What kind of strategy should I use to do same level of
> testing on a
> Mac? Is buying another Mac just for testing the only other
> option? I
> know that I don't need to worry about component
> dependencies/registry
> settings like I do on Windows. But I don't want to use my
> dev machine
> for testing. Are there any tricks involved in creating a
> test
> environment?
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