Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

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

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

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

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: Ideas required on testing an application install

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

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

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

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

If an new internal drive is not an option, partition and format an external USB and/or Firewire drive.  Make one partition for each of your target OSes and install them, one per partition.  Reboot and hold down the Option key.  Select the desired startup partition.  Enjoy. Basically, any moder

Re: Ideas required on testing an application install

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

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