Re: install to external usb disk oops

[Scott Ullrich <geekgod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Bagwill wrote:
> I successfully installed 1.5 to an external USB disk drive but during 
> the  "install boot block" phase, it overwrote the partition table and 
> bootblock  of my internal disk.  I thought I was careful to select 
> /dev/da0 not  /dev/ad0,
> but who knows?  I recovered the partitions with gpart, but WinXP still  
> doesn't boot successfully. :-(
>
> If I'm feeling masochistic, I could try the install again, and see if 
> the  bsdinstaller did it.

Please do if you get a chance.   If there is a bug in this area of BSD 
Installer we really need to fix it.

Thanks,

Scott