Upgrading, Part 3

Well, that went well. I repartitioned my drive, and reinstalled Panther. As soon as it was done, I installed the Developer tools. When this was finished, I used Swap Cop to move my swap folder to the partition I created for it. This worked perfectly.

I then followed these instuctions to complete the process of installing OS X on multiple partitions. I skipped the parts dealing with swap files, since Swap Cop took care of that. I also found that the instructions for hiding the extra volumes (using /Developer/Tools/SetFile) from the desktop didn’t quite work as advertised. The first time I installed Panther (before I repartitioned), the volumes weren’t hidden after adding the commands to /etc/rc. I tested them manually from Terminal, and they worked, so I moved them to nearer the end of the file, and all was well. This time I started them near the end of the file, but it didn’t work. I ran them by hand, and now they are hidden. I’ll probably remove them from /etc/rc and see if the volumes return. I’m guessing SetFile makes permament changes, and doesn’t need to be run at every startup.

I’ve gotten Mail restored. In addition to a backup of ~username/Library/Mail, you also need a backup of ~username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. Firebird 0.7.1 is installed (along with Tabbrowser Extentions), and my bookmarks are restored. NetNewsWire is installed, and my subscriptions restored. Restoring com.ranchero.NetNewsWire.plist works much better than importing an OPML file.

Now I’m building Fink 0.6.1 from the tarball. It’s supposed to play nice with 10.3, and detect the presence of X11, but that didn’t happen when I installed from binaries. So, I’ll try the build source route. I created /Applications/sw to house Fink, and a symlink for it as /sw. This will let Fink live on the Applications partition, and still be accessible via the recomended path. The binary installer will handle this automatically if you go that route.

So, in addition to a 750meg swap partition, my drive layout and usage breaks down like this:


/dev/disk0s4              5.9G   3.8G   2.0G    66%    /
/dev/disk0s6              5.9G   440M   5.4G     7%    /Applications
/dev/disk0s8               24G   4.3G    20G    18%    /Users

So far, so good. And Expose still rocks.

(UPDATE) Warning: Before you decide to partition your drive, read why I am using a single partition again. If you do partition, be sure to make your System partition big enough. Some applications (e.g., GarageBand) put files into /Library, which is on your System partition. GarageBand + JamPack put 4.5G into /Library.

Tags:
Posted November 4th, 2003 at 4:39 am No Comments »

Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Comments are closed.