in my mind,reading prompts is the most important part of installing a new
OS.  even when i was just trying freeBSD for a night, i found it helpful and
easy to install.  especially if you read the prompts.  (freeBSD also has
this nice little help feature...  i also read every screen of my redhat
install, even though i've installed several linux's before.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Meuser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:3749] Re: The error of PCMCIA


On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:22:57PM -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
> hmm well. I got kind disenchanted with *BSD when it wiped out my entire
disk 
> without asking or warning me, to make matters worse, it promptly crashed
and 
> rebooted right after wiping the entire disk (with 4 operating systems, and
my 
> entire backup of my mandrake system, with all my work on it...). Im not 
> saying that I wont try *bsd, but Ill never put it on a disk with other
OS's 
> on it!

I've installed OpenBSD and FreeBSD on multiboot machines, never had this
problem.  OBSD's install script asks;
Use the entire disk for OpenBSD? [y/N]  (the capital N meaning default is
no)  

As with any OS you're not completely familiar with, it is probably a good
idea to put it where it can't cause harm. 

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