Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 05:26:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Jack Freelander <jack@rabbit.eng.miami.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jef Moskot <jam@winona.cs.miami.edu> Subject: upgrade problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905230459080.19827-100000@rabbit.eng.miami.edu>
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The installation/upgrade utility for FreeBSD 3.2 seems seriously flawed. While upgrading a machine here at UM, the installation newfs'd SEVERAL partitions other than just the root, which was ALL it was told to do. Although backups exist for everything, it is completely ridiculous that the upgrade utility would newfs anything other than what it was told. Jef Moskot and myself were both present during the attempted upgrade and we are both certain that ONLY "/" was told to be newfs'd. Furthermore, the label editor is asinine in its behaviour. When trying to return to the previous menu to label the partitions on a second or third disk, hitting "Q" (the only reasonable choice on the menu) returns you in such a way that you can no longer label partitions on other fixed disks. Over the course of many installation procedures this evening, it repeatedly try to fsk partitions it was never told to touch. Also, the entire installation/upgrade interface is considerably counterintuitive. Selecting Q to quit or hitting escape to exit **really** implies that you wish to totally abandon the entire procedure, instead of simplying returning to the previous menu. It would take little effort to make this interface more intelligible. I run FreeBSD at school, home, and work, and find that once it is installed, it works very well. However, I have serious complaints about the installation/upgrade procedure. I have never once seen it work correctly on any system. Please let me know what, if anything, will be done about these bugs. -Jack Freelander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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