I'd say, it's not unpredictable, but just the sane way to do it, I mean, a power outage is sometimes enough to screw something up... or maybe you accidentally select the wrong partition, b/c the installer you are new to confuses you in some ways, etc..
I never lost data in my life, and was always able to fix my partition table, etc., but boy, sometimes it took me days to recover something, just b/c I thought "I know what I'm doing", and it turned out that I hit return too soon, etc.. > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> > When I start the install process from the Live CD, I'll probably be >> > asked to choose a partition where I want Plan9 to live, right? >> > >> > I'll choose one; it'll warn me that the partition is already in use, >> > do I want to overwrite it? I'll reply, yes, and BOOM the partition is >> > committed to Plan9. The rest of my partitions are left alone! - right? >> > Much obliged. >> >> nice in theory. in practice, make backups. > > I was waiting for that one to pop up. :) > > If it's _that_ unpredictable, I think that I'll install it on a spare > box. FWIW, 8 mos ago, I installed XP on Part1; Linux on 2 (with the > swap on an extended partition); PcBSD on 3; and Native Oberon on 4. > > used Gnome `gparted' to resize and move partitions, with XP still in > Part.1 > > Zero problems! No OS install tried to mess with another partition. So, > are you being overly cautious here, or is there a real danger that > Plan9 has a run-away? > > -- > Duke > > >
