From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 17 12:10:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (mail19a.dulles19-verio.com [161.58.134.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F8C237B405 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mmm1902.dulles19-verio.com (161.58.134.144) by mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 094024177 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 15:08:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (root@localhost) by localhost (8.9.3) id PAA93949; Fri, 17 May 2002 15:09:52 -0400 From: rob@pythonemproject.com Message-Id: <200205171909.PAA93949@mmm1902.dulles19-verio.com> X-Authentication-Warning: mmm1902.dulles19-verio.com: root set sender to rob@pythonemproject.com using -f Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 19:09:52 UT Reply-To: rob@pythonemproject.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re: Can Sysinstall now deal with 2 FBSD partitions? X-Mailer: AutoBahn Webmail X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I made a new slice and labeled it. And the install went to the old slice. Simple as that. And nowhere did it ask what slice I wanted to use. Now what I am wondering is if the newer sysinstall has that functionality? Rob. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Rahul Siddharthan >To: rob >Sent: Fri, 17 May 2002 18:15:27 > >rob wrote: >> I had an older version of -stable and tried to >install the -Current >> developer release image via my already installed >-stable version. (I >> could boot from the cd, but then its kernel >didn't recognize my CDROM >> drive.) So I proceeded with /stand/sysinstall, >created a new partition, >> and labeled it, and then installed -Current from >the CDROM source. But >> it went and overwrote my old partition instead of >installing on the new >> partition. So I cvsup'ed back to -stable. > >I don't see why this should happen. To avoid >confusion, let's stick >to FreeBSD terminology where an MSDOS-style >partition is a "slice" and >a UFS-style partition is a "partition". I assume >you mean that you had >two FreeBSD slices. sysinstall asks you which >slice you want to >install to, and then asks you to partition that >slice for /, /usr, >swap, and so on (with some reasonable defaults). >At that point, did you >make sure that you chose the right slice? eg, if >you have slices 1 >and 2, and you wanted to install on slice 2, the >root would have been >/dev/ad0s2a (or something like that). Your >existing freebsd >installation would be using /dev/ad0s1a. If you >chose the appropriate >slice, that's where sysinstall should have done the >install. > >- Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message