From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 16:00:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07350 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:00:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07202 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA09598 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:59:28 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810162259.PAA09598@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810162237.PAA02507@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:37:49 -0700 >From: Mike Smith >Partitions are laid on disk in the order that you enter them. The 'a' >partition is always reserved for the partition you mount on /. Which is fairly reasonable for an initial install. But for subsequent customization (such as adding a new disk, or partitioning a disk that is destined to become a new boot disk), it can be a fair nuisance. (Yes, I realize I'm veering rather off-subject... but I've needed to deal with this a few too many times lately.) >Due to the way that sysinstall interacts with libdisk, this is >difficult to get "right". We probably need a bandaid which insists >that if you want to create an 'a' partition you must lay it down first. Well, I've tried resorting to using sysinstall to do the partitioning, then "disklabel -r -e" to change the partition names back to what I wanted in the first place. It worked out, but I'd have difficulty recommending the approach. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message