Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 22:42:22 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: Kris Kirby <kirbykb@airnet.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dammit! :) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921223211.2635A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <341D37C00000B74D@goliath.airnet.net> (added by goliath.airnet.net)
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well i actually suceeded in doing the forced untar over the whole thingy, i needed to re-make my /dev and i wouldn't recommend doing it if you have user accounts on your system, someone suggested the "--unlink" option to tar which seemed to help (don't know what woulda happended without it) if you do have accounts make sure you untar the system files FIRST as it gets confused for some reason... ._________________________________________ __ _ |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin for hire... |perlsta@sunyit.edu |http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta : ---"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?" ' ---"who was that masked admin?" On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Kris Kirby wrote: > Alfred: > > >sorry for this, but that system i was talking about in the previous > >message is giving me a heck of a hard time. The BIOS in it doesn't > >support large harddrives and i have a 4.3 gig IDE in it. > > Here's what I did on my machine [722MB, no LBA/etc]. Make a 32 or 33 Mbyte > primary partition below the 500 MB limit, assuming that you only want / to > be 32Mbytes. Make that your / filesystem. Then put /usr, etc. on the > remaining chunk. When FreeBSD is installed/restored, your kernel will boot > from the smaller partition, and when in comes out of "real" mode, it can > access the whole 4.3 GB. BTW, "real" mode ends when the kernel stops spewing > out bright text. > > >is there anyway to save the installation i did? > My solution presents a problem because the / filesystem is tarred in there too. > Anyone else? > > Regards, > > Kris > >
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