FreeBSD-stable setup

[Julian Stacey]

Reference:
> From:		"Salex S." <salex772 at gmail.com> 
> Date:		Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:39:29 +0400 
> Message-id:	<48575C21.5080705 at gmail.com> 

"Salex S." wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> Yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD-stable and I never saw that new 
> installer which is in FreeBSD-stable. Usually I use sysinstall. 
> Unfortunately "new" setup didn't show me my  NTFS partition on that disk 
> and I thought that  it's normal and I can see only free space which will 
> be used for FreeBSD slice. As a result NTFS partition was cleaned out! I 
> got one partition on the whole disk with freebsd slice on it! And my big 
> photo archive was lost! Certainly  it's my fault, but I'm sure the 
> installer is not intelligible enough in partitioning and much worse than 
> classic sysinstall.  User must see the whole disk he operating on with 
> all partitions shown in one summary table! Now I'm trying to recover 
> NTFS partition that now is UNDER FreeBSD slice. And I'm looking for 
> tools that have possibilities to find NTFS tables that were not probably 
> erased by FreeBSD empty slice.

/usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs perhaps
or ask list fs at freebsd.org 

Julian
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