Install nightly to partition

[humdinger]

@donn

OK, the answer to that is apparently “no” - I can actually mount the anyboot image, if I specify iso9660 filesystem, but that gets me only a small filesystem with a small floppy image, and Installer crashes when it sees it.

You can register an anyboot image from Terminal via “diskimage register {name-of-anyboot}”. Then mount as usual and use Installer.

So it looks to me like, from where I am, a little after alpha4, the current “raw image” is mountable but is no longer a system image; the anyboot image is not effectively mountable; so there’s no longer any way to install a nightly from hard disk.

The issue seems to be that you can’t install a current nightly from an ancient Haiku installation. The Installer/makebootable etc. don’t know about the package anagement intricacies.
You’ll have to make one last clean installation by creating a USB stick or CD from a nightly. After that you can use the new update mechanism.

Regards,
Humdinger