How does one update their current Haiku to the current Nighlty Build? Is there a simple upgrade process where one retains all the apps and settings they have done so it just updates the few things they did since the one we are running? Or. a, I basically having to erase my USB Thumb Drive and starting from scratch downloading and using the new build? Took me a bit to get my booting Haiku and testing some issues and was asked to upgrade to current nightly build and I have never done this so figured I would ask.
If you install from CD, it’ll replace your system folder and merge all other folders with newer versions of the files. It updates & nothing is lost.
If you are running Haiku from USB stick, then you need to find another way to install Haiku to it. ie: from CD drive install or with virtual machine making the ISO your primary drive. That’s the only ways to keep your installed applications and settings.
Virtualization tip: If a virtualized version of Haiku doesn’t acknowledge a CD image as a bootable volume, using a nightly VMware file as a second hard disk may help. Just shut down the virtual machine and specify the VMware image as a new hard drive. Then restart, run the Installer application and use the newly-added disk as installation source.
it’s working also to install a new version (ie. nightly build) from an usb stick onto an existing system on the hard drive, you don’t necessary have to use a CD.
Can’t this be done from within Haiku instead of from a USB stick. If I am running a nightly build and download a raw file, would using the installer app do the same thing or I have to do it via booting from the new nightly build?
“There is an easy way around the problem for now: just rename /boot/system to something else, and then copy the new /boot/system folder to the boot volume. Of course, you won’t be able to start new applications while there is no /system - copying with Tracker works just fine, though.”
“rename /boot/system to something else, and then copy the new /boot/system folder to the boot volume.”
I was trying to do that from HD installed A2 and it failed. After renaming system folder and starting to copy new from nightly CD my desktop disappeared some 15sec later and nothing worked after that. So my system has no system now…
