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Date:      Fri, 2 Aug 1996 22:20:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Justin Ashworth <justin@structured.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Creating a fs without swap
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802221802.535E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32012988.41C67EA6@structured.net>

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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Justin Ashworth wrote:

> I'm creating a new filesystem per FAQ 3.13, but I'm having problems
> writing the disklabel changes to the disk without a swap partition. All
> I want is one directory (/), not an entire filesystem (I understand a
> filesystem to mean / and swap at the minimum and preferably /usr). Am I
> going about it the wrong way? If so, what's the right way?

This argument is still going on.

You may be better off doing it the long way.  

Reference ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/incoming/disks.ps.gz.  This is
a new section for "Installing...FreeBSD".   Or poke about the mail
archives.

A fellow admin says he is adding a SCSI disk soon -- we'll take the
opportunity to get some good docs produced.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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