From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 3 2:14:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m03.mx.aol.com (imo-m03.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3085937B405 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DAlSault@aol.com) Received: from DAlSault@aol.com by imo-m03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id n.84.19a16d04 (25714) for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:14:52 -0400 (EDT) From: DAlSault@aol.com Message-ID: <84.19a16d04.289bc58b@aol.com> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:14:51 EDT Subject: Handbook lack.. To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_84.19a16d04.289bc58b_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --part1_84.19a16d04.289bc58b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need it stated explicitly that the install creates a slice for FreeBSD and does not attempt to write over my present OS and data and apps. I'm sitting here with my image disks but I don't dare run them because I don't know what will happen to my sytem. I don't dare guess. Your handbook states that the install does everything, but it doesn't say what that everything is. Your everything and mine may not be the same. You need to more explicitly state what the install does. Do I need to run a disk partitioning program first? That's my confusion. --part1_84.19a16d04.289bc58b_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need it stated explicitly that the install creates a slice for FreeBSD and
does not attempt to write over my present OS and data and apps. I'm sitting
here with my image disks but I don't dare run them because I don't know what
will happen to my sytem. I don't dare guess. Your handbook states that the
install does everything,  but it doesn't say what that everything is. Your
everything and mine may not be the same. You need to more explicitly state
what the install does. Do I need to run a disk partitioning program first?
That's my confusion. --part1_84.19a16d04.289bc58b_boundary-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message