Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
I'm not sure how to explain.
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:49:38 PJ wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be
Jonathan,
I'd like to thank you for your polite words. I'm not sure I could
have been able to express in the same way. Allow me a few comments:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:51:53 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:49:38 PJ wrote:
Well, whatever it was it
Polytropon wrote:
[snip]
Personally, I do think it's a pity, because FreeBSD (in my experience,
since FreeBSD 4.5) is stable, easy to use (once you have the basic Unix
concepts on board), and astonishingly well-documented. It's also
supported by one of the friendliest and most knowledgeable
PJ wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
Dear Phil,
Ofcourse if you upgrade, files will be overwritten. Could you please be
more specific?
Greetz,
Mark
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
I'm not sure how to explain. It's possible that sysinstall
