On 16/10/2007, Barbara.Lundquist at sun.com <Barbara.Lundquist at sun.com> wrote: > More tweaking done: > > The Slim installer prototype cannot upgrade an existing operating > system. The installer performs an initial installation which overwrites > all software and data on the target disk.
I'm fairly certain that isn't correct. If I remember correctly from the demo Dave Miner was showing us at the summit, it let you choose the partition for installation, although you couldn't edit existing ones. This means you should be able to install it into a single partition without affecting any other partitions. It also offers an "Use Whole Disk" option. Perhaps it would be better worded: "The Slim installer prototype cannot upgrade an existing operating system. The installer can perform an initial installation into a selected primary partition (preserving existing partitions) or use an entire disk. Installation will overwrite all software and data on the selected target." -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
