Same here. Fink is on another partition than OS X and /sw symlinks to it. Never had any problem with that. Additionally, /sw is also used by other software (not Fink related) who looks for /sw into AFS system and also the sharing did not produce any ill-fated side effect.
Massimo At 1:44 PM -0800 3/22/02, Paul Lieberman wrote: >With other Unix systems you'd simply have an empty directory called /sw >which would be a mount point for your partitions. The all the paths are >still the default /sw... MacOS X insists on mounting everything under >/Volumes but you can still have /sw be a symlink to /Volumes/SomeDisk >and all should be happy. > >Paul > >-- >Paul Lieberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Systems Engineer 541-552-6962 >Computing Services Center >Southern Oregon University >Ashland, OR > > >>>> Koen van der Drift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/22/02 12:33PM >>> >Hi, > >For diskspace reasons and to prevent reinstalling everything if I have >to >reinstall OSX, I would like to install fink on a different partiton. Is > >choosing a different partition for the installation and changing the >line >in .cshrc enough, or should I do something else too? > > >thanks, > >- Koen. > > >_______________________________________________ >Fink-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Massimo Marino, Ph.D. NERSC Division - HPC Department - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~marino On leave at CERN, CH, EP Division, Atlas experiment phone: (+41) 22 767-71288 fax: (+41) 22 767-8350 Office: 40-3-D16 alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
