Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:27 -0700 From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> To: Pascal Giannakakis <capm@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to get a fresh install Message-ID: <20021023181027.A10628@eskimo.eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <003701c27af5$82aa24c0$0200a8c0@capm>; from capm@gmx.net on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:37:11AM %2B0200 References: <20021023165019.B4810@eskimo.eskimo.com> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCENJCNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> <20021023171119.B6258@eskimo.eskimo.com> <003701c27af5$82aa24c0$0200a8c0@capm>
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Doh! Actually I was helping someone else make a fresh install and I hadn't realized she'd started sysinstall from her 4.6 prompt and not from a CD boot. Sorry for the trouble. -r On Thursday, 24 October 2002 at 2:37:11 +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > > > 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. > > I don't wanna be impolite, but are you booting from CD so that adx is > unmounted and are you sure that the "Y" is for NEWFS and not for > Soft-Updates? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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