From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 22:20:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA27861 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 22:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA27855 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 22:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00572; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 22:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 22:20:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Justin Ashworth cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a fs without swap In-Reply-To: <32012988.41C67EA6@structured.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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