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Subject: Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller
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More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall:

There is no upgrade function.  How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation?

For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports and not want to rebuild everything.

Other issue is the 64 KB boot partition, which does not boot for me.

There ought to be an option, or is there already, to omit the boot partition.

Sysinstall had such an option, to not install the boot loader, since user could already have another boot manager such as LILO or grub (legacy or grub2).

Does the 64 KB boot partition have to be the first partition on the disk in order to be functional?  One might want to use a different boot loader, such as grub2, and what about the EFI system partition that is very different from a 64 KB FreeBSD boot partition?

Tom