Re: new sysinstall

[leimy2k@xxxxxxx]

> Except that, for whatever reason, your system might not like booting 
> off
> the hard drive in the same way it liked booting off the CD.  While all
> your hardware may seem to be supported, either the loader (at any 
> stage)
> or kernel could actually fail on you.  I've seen this happen before on 
> my
> machines, and have heard about it happening to other people.  When it
> does happen the last thing you want to do is trudge back to sysinstall
> and recheck everything (maybe multiple times) to get your system 
> working.
>
> > I think I am not 100% sold on this idea; not that I have to be or that
> > my opinion is that
> > important but I would like to understand this situation better and how
> > the proposed
> > solution actually helps solve the problem.  It seems I can still make 
> > a
> > pretty bad
> > installation even if I install a smaller good one first.
>
> You absolutely can, the problem I think is having the installer fail in
> mid-installation or, worse, having your system turn out to be 
> unbootable
> after you just spent thirty minutes (or an hour :/) orchestrating
> sysinstall is very frustrating, and installing in two stages like this
> can alleviate some of that frustration.

I see.  Well chalk that up to luck on my part I suppose :).  I guess I 
haven't experienced
that case before.

> > Dave
> >
> > > 					-Matt
> > > 					Matthew Dillon
> > > 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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