Hello all, I'm almost done downloading the ISO image of 4.0-RC that Jordan announced yesterday. I'd very much like to contribute to the "qa" effort for 4.0 but I've got a few questions I know you experts can answer before I dive in. Right now I've got a 3.4-STABLE system on da1. I don't want to touch that (I've got tape backups and all, but I still don't want to nuke it just yet). I was going to purchase a "cheap" (in price) 15-20Gb EIDE drive "soon" just for MP3s and other random storage and figured that before I put it into my "real" system that I could use it to install 4.0-RC and help give feedback on the experience. My questions: o As long as I DO NOTHING to my scsi drives in any of the label/partition screens, is there any chance that doing a binary install onto this new EIDE drive will affect them in any way? I saw yesterday that one must do "disklabel -B" on all your disks when upgrading from source. Would sysinstall do this to "all" disks and if so, would that screw me once I wanted to go back and boot good ol' 3.4-STABLE? o I'm currently dual-booting on this machine. Would the install do anything to the boot sector (i.e. giving me the option to boot from this new EIDE drive)? Right now, I'm only interested in "dry-running" this 4.0-RC to help out testing. Eventually, I've got to re-org da1 (and da0) and will do a complete backup, nuke, and re-install of 4.0 from "official" CDs--given this, would it be "safer" to simply unplug the silly SCSI drives from the machine and do the install (so it would be physically impossible to screw them over in any way)? Thanks, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
