From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jan 27 10:18:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19479 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:18:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19467 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA97485; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:21:15 GMT Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:21:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mark Turpin cc: Alpha Mailing list Subject: Re: 19990114-SNAP Install problems... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Mark Turpin wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > I think there are problems with the libdisk changes I made last time I had > > my hands inside sysinstall. I think it only works if the disk already has > > a valid disklabel (oops). > > > > This is on my list of things to fix and it will be soon (possibly less > > than a week). > > So, If I put the drive in another FreeBSD box and do a > disklabel it should work? Unfortunately not. The label is written in different places on the disk for i386 and alpha. I managed to get my release to build so I'm debugging this now and I expect to have a fix RSN. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message