Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just as a side note here, anyone trying to install DragonFly > onto a machine with other partitions should ALWAYS do a full > backup of their disk, bit-for-bit, since clearly it is possible > to accidently wipe other partitions during the install. > > One easy way to do this would be to purchase an external USB hard > drive (preferably usb2.0) large enough to hold the data, boot the > DragonFly CD, and (carefully) use dd to make a bit-for-bit copy > to the external drive.
It could be nice having the BSD Installer offer some back-up options, like saving a few files, a partition, or all disk, to what- ever media is available. Some other raw disk, a file, network share, cd/dvd, email ;) That way, people (me included) would have no excuse not to take the safe route. Just an idea. /Jonas Sundström. www.kirilla.com
