WARNING ! WARNING !
I proceeded to install OSX 10.2 on an external firewire
drive. The external drive had 3 partitions. The internal drive of
the FlowPow iMac had three partitions and was running OSX 10.2.
I selected the option in OSX that provides for complete
erasure of the old system before installing.
The install disk rebooted from the CD ---- EVEN THOUGH THAT
WAS NOT NECESSARY --- because the internal drive was already 10.2 and
I only wanted to upgrade the external disk.
The install disk---WIPED OUT MY ENTIRE INTERNAL Drive BOOT
PARTITION !!!!
Even though it only installed 10.2 on the external drive
--and it did not touch any of the other partitions, it wiped out the
entire 10.2 internal partition and did not install anything on it =.
Furthermore, It reformatted the 10.2 partition with the old
HFS formatting!?! I tried everything (New Norton, Old Norton,
Diskwarriors ) to find anything on this partition and it was so
completely wiped I couldn't recover a single file. And then I had to
completely reformat the partition to install system 10.2 all over
again !?!
THIS IS A HUGE and SERIOUS INSTALLATION BUG.
THE LESSONS:
1) if you want to do a clean install---do it cleaning manually.
2) Use extreme caution installing 10.2 one computers with
multiple disks.
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