On 12/8/05, Faraz Shahbazker faraz.shahbazker@gmail.com wrote:
Dude I took that much time reading the docs before I actually installed (and you ask why it did what it did to you?).
Uh....lol. I had read up on the release notes and searched around for bugs. But my mistake was to trust the latest _stable_ release. At that time it was 5.2.1. Dunno, whats the latest.
I had also read up 2 or 3 installation notes online. My production machine is very valuable and thats why I chose to install it on a _fresh_, _physically independent_ harddrive. I always fret about installing stuff on different partitions.
I dont clearly remember what options I had chosen but I do clearly remember telling FreeBSD to use my 10GB harddisk and automatically select the partitioning scheme. I remember _double checking_ the selected harddrive's capacity (had 10G, 20G and 120G HDDs back then). I also remember asking it to load the bootloader on the first sector of ITS harddisk and not the pri-master.
And being an experienced Linux user, I know how to install stuff :) Unfortunately, I was out of luck since the installer itself was borked. It corrupted my harddisks badly :'(
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