From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 16:50:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B794E37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC9243E4A for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ripper@eskimo.com) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27983 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:50:20 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id QAA05910 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:50:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:50:19 -0700 From: Ross Lippert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: trying to get a fresh install Message-ID: <20021023165019.B4810@eskimo.eskimo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i WWW-Home-Page: http://www.eskimo.com/~ripper Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I'm trying to make a fresh install on a computer which had 4.6 on it (installing 4.7) and for some reason, although the NEWFS=Y in every row of the disklabel dialog, I am seeing clear signs that sysinstall is reading my old /var/db/pkg info among other things. This indicates to me that the newfs was somehow incomplete. It is certainly possible that the disklabel partitions are just identicle enough that it would line up correctly. I do find it very disconcerting that this happens. How do I get newfs "for real"? This is an ugly mess. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message