From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 5 13:49:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7587A106566C for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:49:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0478FC1A for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:49:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KNW00IFOP2QIJ60@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:49:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4A798DF2.3020305@videotron.ca> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:49:38 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) To: Polytropon References: <4A76FB32.9050601@videotron.ca> <20090803215319.8fad2441.freebsd@edvax.de> In-reply-to: <20090803215319.8fad2441.freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:49:39 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would >> overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that >> files will not be overwritten? >> > > I'm not sure how to explain. It's possible that sysinstall recreated > the slices and paritions, or at least the partitions were marked as > to be formatted ("Y" after the file system type in the partition > editor). > > Because I've never used the "Upgrade" functionality of sysinstall, > I'm not even sure what it is supposed to do. > Well, whatever it was it sure screwed up my system; not only FBSD but the whole machine became un bootable when some xcb or something like that could not be loaded because of some problem with a python port. And there is the crux of the matter... thre's too much sloppiness and overlapping in the way that the ports/packages and the update/upgrade methods are implemented and especially, documented. Due to diligence and a great deal of my time, I managed to save all the files that were on the system and recovered the XP disks so everything can now be re-installed and used. The only "victim" in the end is FreeBSD as I will never touch it again. It has been going downhill since way back; but I think I just preferred to stay with my illusions and tolerated the waste of time and effort reconfiguring, searching for answers and reinstalling, rebooting and the whole shebang under the aura of "learning". So learn I did. Don't touch it; it sucks. There are other systems better than FBSD, so g'bye all. >:o :-P -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php