[Pythonmac-SIG] Idea on RootInstallOnly problems

[Chris Lee]

I have only one disk with a single partition but had problems selecting 
the disk for install with 2.3rc1.  I had to go back a step in the 
installer and then forward to be allowed to select the disk.

Cheers
Chris

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:03  AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

> I have an idea on the problems with RootInstallOnly, let me bounce it 
> off you. It may have to do with the partition you use for your boot 
> disk: if it's the first partition on your disk then things worked fine 
> with the -6 installer, if it is not the first partition then things 
> don't work.
>
> I noticed that at work things went wrong (the boot disk selected, but 
> an error message with "(null)" in it and I had to select another disk 
> and the boot disk again to make things work), but at home everything 
> works fine.
>
> At work my setup is that I have two IDE disks, with OSX running on the 
> second partition of the second disk (disk1s9).
>
> At home I have one IDE disk and one firewire disk. OSX is running on 
> the first partition of the firewire disk (disk1s4).
>
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