(NOTE: I’m doing all this experimental stuff inside a virtual box vm)
I just tried the latest build (hrev53000). And Installer didn’t get even as far as it did before. This time it failed while it was in the middle of writing files from my Home folder to the USB stick. It didn’t hang, but it failed with a Bad File Descriptor message.
When I tried examining the USB stick, I discovered that it looked as if it had wiped out the partitions. I rebooted the vm, inserted the USB stick, and the volume looked fine. It just had a partially populated Home folder.
What about the Haiku hpkg’s that are definitely part of the operating system? Is it really safe to just overwrite them?
Update: I just tried copying the packages onto my USB stick, and I got this error:
Notice that it’s complaining about trying to copy a file that was not selected and dragged over to the destination folder!
Scratch that, It’s another file that should have been in the group I deselected… going to look into this. Back in a moment.
OK, It must have been something in the Administrative folder. Is it OK to not copy that one over? Or is there some book keeping information that has to be brought over along with the hpkg’s?
Just for giggles, I tried leaving out the Administrative folder. Same error message just happened when writing a different file.