Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:09:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Matt Saunders <matts@easynet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems overwriting old BSDI disks? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420140820.9805O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980420134031.21892.qmail@omega.noc.easynet.net>
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Matt Saunders wrote: > We've upgraded a number of our machines to FreeBSD 2.2.(5|6) from > BSDI BSD/OS 3.1. Each and every time we do this (reusing the old BSDI > hard disk) sysinstall hangs shortly after it runs, at the "probing > devices" screen. Are you sure it's hung and not reprobing the disks several times? It does this on my laptop -- takes about 45 seconds to a minute to complete. I don't have old UFS partitions laying around tho. > This is on pretty standard IDE-only hardware. > > The only solution seems to be to completely wipe out the old system > with something like DOS fdisk which works, but is a pain. Sort of -- it could be confusing sysinstall because it looks like a UFS volume but isn't quite. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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