The bootloader is written to the mbr unless you specify somewhere else, eg superblock of the root partition. The initrd will be written to /boot which may be in the root partition...
I am working on getting LVM on my notebook. The easiest way may be to use the whole disk except for a small /boot partition which needs to be outside the LVM but with an initrd...
When running removepkg it does not matter where you are in the filesystem. However you need to either be in the same directory as the new packages or specify the path. I make sure I am in the same...
I have seen that as well and that sounds about right, deleting autosaved mails that you are writing, once you have sent them. However I think that sometimes there may be a delay between sending it...
You can upgrade from FF4 to FF8 or remove FF4 then install FF8. To upgrade use upgradepkg oldpackagename%newpackagename. You need to do that as root. You will need to get the oldpackagename from...