Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:16:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: ulf@Alameda.net Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Message-ID: <199810162216.PAA02391@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:01:27 PDT." <19981016150127.B18717@Alameda.net>
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> > With the "FreeBSD only" machines, you have a single slice with all your > > partitions inside it, right? > > Sorry, let me name it different: > > sysinstall->Partition->Create one partition, size it as full disk, but not > dedicated. > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create swap (128 or 256MB) > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create root (usual 100 or 200MB) > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /usr (usual ~500MB) > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /var (usual 100 or 200MB) > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /usr/local (using the rest of the space) > > This is the usual order I enter the file systems in the sysinstall Disklabel. I'm working on the details right now, but you *must* create root and swap in that order. Doing it the other way around confuses something; I'm not yet sure what. This was pointed out by another poster several days ago. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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