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This Works on Panther. Have not yet tried 10.2.x -> 10.3, will probely need to unlink mount points before upgrade and replace old apple apps with the new one and relink mount points. I will be doing this one on monday fingers crossed. Will post more.
Panther Compatiblity
I got this to mostly work on Panther, with some issues.
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Forgot to mention... when viewing the contents of your main drive in finder, the relocated folders (Applications, Users, swap) have a different icon. Its the network icon, with a shortcut arrow attached. I find this annoying, but have found no workaround.
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At least on my system, I have figured out why I couldn't get swap to work. The mount -vat nfs command wouldn't mount the LABEL= diskname partitions, and NetInfo is apparently not up far enough for /Swap to be mounted. (I suspect this is part of the trouble when using Apple updates--they look to rely on fstab working right, so I may change the suggestion of using the Labels to using the /dev/disk0sxx format in /etc/fstab). So I adapted some of the notes posted elsewhere for Panther to get this to work. Note that I have /Swap as slice 10 on my machine (one way to see this, in the Terminal, run df -k to see the positions of your partitions), so replace disk0s10 with whatever you use locally. Go down in /etc/rc to where swapdir is set and make it
(or /Swap/.vm if you so desire, just be sure you are consistent) After the netboot check, insert this:
There is now a chunk of text that tests for the swapfile existing and cleans out
any left over swapfiles. After that are "dynamic_pager" and appprofile commands. Change these to:
Make these modifications and otherwise use the instructions above in this tip and you should get swap to work.Note that it can seem as though you are making swapfiles on Swap even when you are not: if /Swap is not mounted when /etc/rc is running, a directory you cannot see is created under your /Swap mount. This leads to really odd things: if you do a global search from the Finder for "swapfil" (visible and invisible), you will turn up the current swapdir files shown with a parent of vm (or .vm), but clicking on the file to see the full path locks up the Finder, apparently because the directory isn't accessible from the Finder (nor indeed from Unix until you unmount the Swap partition).
Panther Compatiblity
Applied this to panther, and worked well at first. I even installed panther a second time after the partitions were in place. (first I forgot to leave out all the world languages... ;-) ). With the swap, application, and user partition in place doing a clean install is a breeze.
Panther Compatiblity
When installing stuff - just point the installer to your root (System disk). If you have setup your mountpoint system properly with mountpoints for your /Applications located on the root disk - then as far as the system is concerned that /Applications dir is essentially grafted onto /root disk and appears as a normal unpartitioned OS X setup. I have never had any trouble with installers. I did used to point my installers to my /Applications partition though and then realized it wasn't even necessary.
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Yep, I do that and for most apps it works fine. But the iTunes 4.1 update failed (it created a new applications folder, so i dittod it to the applications slice and it works now), I can't any of the pro-apps to work, but haven't dug into yet. And my keyspan digital remote doesn't work either. It install fine, but complains about not being installed properly. I still have to sort that out.
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Made the mistake of trying to upgrade to Panther over the existing mount points. Things *seemed* to be working, but then I found that things like Terminal, Console, and X11 were not working. After some panic, I found that the upgrade did not follow the link to the Applications partition and these older versions of the applications don't run (either well or at all) under Panther. Copying over these apps from another system allows them to work, but some others are a bit more difficult to deal with. As previous upgraders from Apple have also had trouble with the Applications partition, I wonder if making a separate Applications partition is getting to be a bad idea. Does anybody have any positive results in getting the mounts to be followed by Apple's installers?
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Craig and wizwoz,
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I implemented this hint way back when, and loved it until I did the Panther upgrade - disaster! After restoring from backup, it's back and still works - but how would I unlink Applications and Users so they once again exist in the boot volume as real subdirectories? |
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