Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-07-19 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 19, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Ian Piper wrote: Yes, I set it to GUID. It wouldn't even install on the SD card until I did that. I'm afraid I don't know the procedure for submitting a bug - presumably you mean to Apple? Yup, http://bugreport.apple.com. Maybe it's a Snow Leopard thing? Have

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-07-19 Thread Steve Christensen
On Jul 19, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Ian Piper wrote: On 19 Jul 2009, at 6:46pm, Andy Lee wrote: On Jul 19, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Ian Piper wrote: How do you get the SD card to act as a bootable drive? Did you try Google? A search for "boot sd card macbook" turned up this as the first hit:

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-07-19 Thread Ian Piper
On 19 Jul 2009, at 6:46pm, Andy Lee wrote: On Jul 19, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Ian Piper wrote: How do you get the SD card to act as a bootable drive? Did you try Google? A search for "boot sd card macbook" turned up this as the first hit:

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-07-19 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 19, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Ian Piper wrote: How do you get the SD card to act as a bootable drive? Did you try Google? A search for "boot sd card macbook" turned up this as the first hit: D

Re[2]: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-07-19 Thread Peter Mulholland
Hello Ian, Sunday, July 19, 2009, 12:45:50 PM, you wrote: > On 26 Jun 2009, at 5:30am, Bill Bumgarner wrote: >> It'll be interested to see what kind of performance one achieves >> when booting from an SD card. Given their price ($40 for a class-6 >> SDHC card), it would be an attractive and

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-07-19 Thread Ian Piper
On 26 Jun 2009, at 5:30am, Bill Bumgarner wrote: It'll be interested to see what kind of performance one achieves when booting from an SD card. Given their price ($40 for a class-6 SDHC card), it would be an attractive and convenient option. Certainly, I know that when I have a moment, I'm

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-06-25 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Andy Lee wrote: * It annoys me to wait for CDs/DVDs to boot, so (like another person who posted) I like to have a small bootable partition on a hard drive somewhere. Someone else pointed out you can boot from a thumb drive, which is a great idea I will have to

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-06-25 Thread Andy Lee
Just the other day Bill Bumgarner posted how he does it over on the xcode-users list: Although not as convenient as running a virtual machine this sounds like a very good system. A couple of notes: * After booting from th

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-06-25 Thread Peter N Lewis
On 26/06/2009, at 2:04 , Ramakrishna Vavilala wrote: I just finished converting (rewriting) a windows application to work on Mac OSX. I made a package for my application. Now I want to test it on a clean machine. In Windows I would normally create a clean Virtual Machine and install the applicat

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-06-25 Thread syntonica
Ideas required on testing an application install > To: "Cocoa Developers" > Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 11:04 AM > I just finished converting > (rewriting) a windows application to work > on Mac OSX. I made a package for my application. Now I want > to test it > o

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-06-25 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Ramakrishna Vavilala wrote: In Windows I would normally create a clean Virtual Machine and install the application to make sure that everything is working properly on a clean machine. What kind of strategy should I use to do same level of testing on a Mac? In a

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Dautermann
On Thursday, June 25, 2009, at 11:04AM, "Ramakrishna Vavilala" wrote: >I just finished converting (rewriting) a windows application to work >on Mac OSX. I made a package for my application. Now I want to test it >on a clean machine. >What kind of strategy should I use to do same level of test

Ideas required on testing an application install

2009-06-25 Thread Ramakrishna Vavilala
I just finished converting (rewriting) a windows application to work on Mac OSX. I made a package for my application. Now I want to test it on a clean machine. In Windows I would normally create a clean Virtual Machine and install the application to make sure that everything is working properly on