Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:14:45 +1000 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysinstall request: confirm overwrite! Message-ID: <199807140215.MAA09677@melba.bby.com.au>
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Maybe I'm just stupid or something, but I got bit bad by sysinstall on the weekend. I wanted to load some of the source packages that I hadn't put on when i installed the system and sysinstall looked like the sensible way to do it. However, whether it's because I'm stupid or the interface sucks or I haven't Rd TFM right, what I _thought_ I was doing was adding the contrib and X sources. What I actually wound up doing was reinstalling the whole system, binaries, config files, source and all, as if from scratch. I noticed this when it started putting stuff into /etc and of course all sorts of things, including all my cvsup'd source, got overwritten/broken. Some time then spent in cleaning up all the /etc configs ... :< (Interesting data point: for CVSup to go from a CD-ROM 2.2.6 install to a -STABLE snapshot as of last weekend, for all sources except gnu & X, was about 10 minutes.) I doubt I'm the first person to do this and I'm probably not the stupidist or least experienced system admin to ever run FreeBSD, so it would be a Good Thing if sysinstall could notice that you are about to overwrite stuff and ask permission first.... Greg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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