On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:16 +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 05/12/06 10:42 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > > > No!!!! Don't touch BSD with a 10 foot long pole >:( I might sound > > paranoid but I have a perfectly good reason for it. FreeBSD 5.2.1 burnt > > me. Corrupted all my partitions. If it weren't for Knoppix back then I > > Hmmm. AFAIK, that only happens when you forget to read the BSD > partitioning instructions.
I have installed FreeBSD 2.x/3.x and have not had any probs with installation - even co-existing with Linux/Windows on a single HDD. However, the PC-BSD v 0.9 something (don't have the CD) installation simply took over an extended partition - no warning no nothing. Luckily for me, the installations on the HDD were expendable. Test the installation of any OS/software on an experimental system before deploying on production system. Also, keep a backup of your "production" installation and data. -- akk -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
