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Re: Best practices for upgrading?
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Re: Best practices for upgrading?


  • Subject: Re: Best practices for upgrading?
  • From: "Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD)" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 08:20:23 -0400
  • Thread-topic: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 170

Read the caveats and other comments at the bottom though; a few people say they've had problems with this method.

Thanks,
Cem Karan

>On 6 May, 2005, at 12:43 AM, Scott Tooker wrote:
>> Another option (somewhat orthogonal to the upgrade vs. clean install
>> issue) is to place your home directory on a secondary volume and then
>> either lay down a symlink in /Users to point to it or edit the account
>> information with NetInfo Manager (I believe you need to set the "Home"
>> property for your account).
>>
>> A place like Mac OS X Hints should have more info on the details.
>>
>After reading this I started to remember that on other UNIX systems you
>usually accomplish this by mounting the user volume to users folder
>(/Users) on the system volume.  So, I checked on Mac OS X hints and
>found this article on how to mount volumes this way.  Not everybody may
>want to do this but it is an option and it would remove the volume from
>showing up on your desktop.
>
>http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021011053443661
>
>
>Regards,
>Brian
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