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Authored by: bluehz on Nov 19, '03 07:01:05PM

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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Panther Compatiblity
Authored by: rrrichie on Nov 20, '03 10:48:43PM

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.
Maybe my links aren't solid enough. :-) In niutil the mountpoints are there to the slices with the labels applications and user. and i created the links on the root drive as in the instructions.
Point is, it seems that it's taking more trouble to install apps now, than having the advantage of a seperate apps partition.



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