NetInfo (was Re: Mac Mini)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Putting home directories in odd places is very easy in OSX: Just use the
NetInfo Manager in your Utilities folder to change the "home" property of
the user in question. Of course, prior to making this change, you need to
COPY the existing home directory to the new location (the canonical way to
do so would be to use "ditto -rsrc"). After you log out and log back in,
you may delete the old home directory. Other people have done this on OSX,
and I have done it on YDL. I have also used this same method under OSX to
change my login shell from tcsh to bash, and to set up NFS service.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:07:38 +0000, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> On Thursday, 20 January 2005 02.16, Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:
>> On 1/19/05 1:02 PM, "Thierry de Coulon" <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
>> > (I want to install it as an "iMovie Machine"
>>
>> I just want to try to be nice and warn you that digital video footage eats
>> hard drive space, so, depending on how much you'll be using it, I'd give OS
>> X as much space as possible when you partition it.
> 
> Thanks, I know :)
> 
> The main problem is that Apple's developers don't understand (or use) OS X 
> "unix" capabilities, so everything is supposed to happen in one, big 
> partition - you can't tell iMovie to allways use a specific directory, or 
> iDVD that it should create it's DVD image on an external hard disk. I never 
> found a hint how to tell OS X I would like to put the "users" directory on 
> another partition....
> 
> Unfortunately, considering the present state of video making tools on Linux, 
> iMovie remains my tolls of choice. But with 80GB on the main hard disk and an 
> external 160GB on a firewire drive, I should find 10GB for YellowDog.
> 
> Thierry