Justin,
Acutally, I wasnt installing, tim had helped me install FreeBSD on the system.
I was trying to add something (a boot loader that would work with BSD, and linux, and
windows, as it was, the boot loader wouldnt load Linux, and I coulnt get lilo to boot
the bsd). So, I read about another bootloader that comes with FreeBSD, and was trying
to install it. So... I booted the BSD disk, and went into the software install area
(never when into an area that messes with the partitions, or does any formatting), and
tried to install a package, before I could get to a package listing, it asked where
the BSD cd was, and I told it, then it tried accessing it, I waited, it did some thing
(i guessed tried to access the Cd, but i guess it was messing with my hard disk...)
then all of a sudden it rebooted, when it came back, it had the bsd boot prompt, and
only listed bsd (before it listed windows, and bsd), after looking about, I discovered
that I nolonger had several partitoins, just one big !
BSD partition. and it had been formatted... sigh.... So... yes, I did read the
prompts, it never said anything about partitions, or formatting... just asked about
the cdrom. then crashed after wrecking my system(s).
>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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