Subject: Re: Mac OS Installer vs. sysinst
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@murphy.dyndns.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/23/2002 19:10:46
On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> It is a lot faster, but the partition editor is broken and dangerous.
> I just found that if you use "part of the disk", it doesn't even show
> you HFS partitions (for "safety"), but then it goes ahead and
> overwrites them anyway!
Someone must have changed things then. The original code didn't do this
and all the tests I ran were on disks with HFS partitions that were
displayed so they could be selected by the user. I've installed with
sysinst without destroying my displayed HFS partitions.
-bob