[- - e r i k - -]

Why is this even an option NOT to install BSD? In these days with the Panther builds I've managed to turn off BSD subsystem in the Custom install (sometime you only bother to download the first CD ) twice! And each time with not very hilarious consequences. FCP4 and DVD Studio Pro went awol, causing Kernel Panics right and left. The system was unstable and speed was erratic.

So I installed it at work yesterday and did the same error (when you uncheck all checkboxes except one, this is easily done). I launched Quark 6.0 and after a long hanging where one after one application became unresponsive and applications started disappearing (!!) in Finder it finally kernel panicked. The second KP in two days. So I went into terminal to run top, and sure enough, I forgot to install the BSD subsystem.

I repeat the question: Why is it even an option NOT to install the BSD-subsystem when so many applications rely on it and not even gives an error when it can't find it, instead resorting to kernel panicking and other scary behavior?

[sanity assassin]

I think subsystem is really a misnomer, the BSD subsytem is just a collection of unix tools that could be optional on any other system.

[stew]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
I repeat the question: Why is it even an option NOT to install the BSD-subsystem when so many applications rely on it and not even gives an error when it can't find it, instead resorting to kernel panicking and other scary behavior?

You are aware that you were using beta software? I never heard of any crashes when not-installing the BSD parts on the release versions of MacOS X 10.0-10.2.x.

[sanity assassin]

Erik, from what I remember of installing Panther, the BSD SS is on the first CD. I only ever installed the first CD but only chose BSD SS, and deselcted everythign else, installed without a hitch.