[Fink-users] Re: Terminal quits immediately after launch

[Sven L. <sve...@te...>]

Thanks Andrei,
I was afraid of that - but I did not manage to do it. It failed!!

I found this message on the apple forum (Installation and Setup)
RE: Can't reinstall 10.1 after security update
(msg # 10.: Posted Nov 23, 01 11:29 pm) 	
The difficulty here is that you cannot safely reinstall OS X from its 
CD-ROM if the system has been updated in any way. This is not a bug 
related to the Security Update, but just a fact of life with this new 
Unix based system. Right now, the only thing you can do is to initialize 
the disk and start over, going through the updates to get back to where 
you are. This is THE big reason to have OS X in a small partition all by 
itself. Just initialize that partition, and the rest of you disk is not 
affected. You cannot trash OS X. There are too many hidden files that 
hang around. So, with all the benefits of OS X, we are stuck with this 
new procedure for reinstalling the OS. The only way to avoid it is to 
avoid updating. I reinstalled over the original system and it was quick 
and easy. However, there were no updates.

I hope Apple works on this issue in the future, or works with a 
developer, to create a product that will completely remove every trace 
of OS X from a disk. It would then be unnecessary to initialize the disk 
to clean it. However, we are still stuck with restoring all the updates 
after the install. Another nice thing would be to have a disk exchange, 
for when there are a lot of updates and someone wants a newer copy. 
Saves all the updating. I'd be willing to pay to get a newer copy in 
exchange for one that needs many updates.

shit....

greetings

Sven