Upgrading to Panther with partitioned hard drive

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I am planning to upgrade my TiBook to panther sometime in the near future. I was wondering if anyone had done the upgrade with partitioned hard drives. I have created a user partition where my user directories reside and a symbolic link to it in the os x partition.

Will the upagrade installer understand that my user directories reside on a different partition and not try to create a whole new user directory in the os x partition? Has anyone gone through this scenario for their upgrade? Will this cause any other unforseen problems?

TIA
 
I haven't personally done this, but I would definitely move my user folder back to the main partition before trying to upgrade. It would probably be good form to return the system to as normal/unpersonalized state as possible before attempting an upgrade.

I would also recommend a full, clean install of Panther instead of trying to upgrade Jaguar. I think you'll find it provides a cleaner, more stable install that way.
 
I second the clean install, it'll save you all kinds of headaches that will likely result in you getting fed up and doing a clean install down the road anyway.

As for the symlink, clever way of moving your homedir, but I have no idea if it will just get overwritten or not. The file system knows that it's a symlink and not a real folder so it might freak out and overwrite the symlink with a new virgin user folder for your username...but like I said, I'm speculating, it may just as easily have no problems with it, but moving it back like ElDiablo said is probably a good idea.

And I'm sure you've already done this, but make a backup on a separate drive (CD or firewire or whatever) of your important files before you use the installer. God knows I've accidentally checked boxes in installers like "Zero all blocks" when I didn't mean to :rolleyes:
 
My iMac's HD was partitioned in two, with a Jaguar residing on both volumes, before I did an archive and install of Panther targeting only the boot volume. After installation both volumes were Pantherized.
 
My iMac's HD was partitioned in two, with a Jaguar residing on both volumes, before I did an archive and install of Panther targeting only the boot volume. After installation both volumes were Pantherized.
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Don't see how this would be possible. The installer will only install on one partition, and it won't affect another partition like this.
 
I had used CCC to duplicate my original set-up to the second volume, maybe that had something to do with it. I was surprised at what happened but fortunately everything was preserved properly and I no longer needed anything from Jaguar anyway. (Now Panther is confined to my boot volume.)

So I would recommend Archive & Install.
 
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