Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:50:54 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.flp for 1104 snap broken Message-ID: <14041.816148254@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:07:03 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951111185328.17909A-100000@w8hd.w8hd.org>
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> > The installation on this snap appears broken, here are the details: > > 1) Booting from the floppy and into the menu-driven installation, I tried > to create a FreeBSD 'partition' which appeared to work Ok. > > 2) Trying to create partitions and label same I can create some partitions > (even using the autodefaults choice) but then it blows-up, complaining > first that its unable to write to the swap partition You used `(W)rite' from the label screen, didn't you? This has been proven, for reasons I'm still unable to fathom, not to work for systems that are not yet installed. I have therefore put LARGE warning letters telling people to not use it for anything but tweaking an existing system. You'll see this in 2.1. Don't use Write. Do your commit step in one go. Jordan
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