Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:06:18 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Message-ID: <19981016160618.A22426@Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <199810162216.PAA02391@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:16:08PM -0700 References: <19981016150127.B18717@Alameda.net> <199810162216.PAA02391@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > With the "FreeBSD only" machines, you have a single slice with all your > > > partitions inside it, right? > > > > Sorry, let me name it different: > > > > sysinstall->Partition->Create one partition, size it as full disk, but not > > dedicated. > > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create swap (128 or 256MB) > > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create root (usual 100 or 200MB) > > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /usr (usual ~500MB) > > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /var (usual 100 or 200MB) > > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /usr/local (using the rest of the space) > > > > This is the usual order I enter the file systems in the sysinstall Disklabel. > > I'm working on the details right now, but you *must* create root and > swap in that order. Doing it the other way around confuses something; > I'm not yet sure what. > > This was pointed out by another poster several days ago. > I know that is was pointed out, but I also had problems with newfs on a ccd, which was not done via sysinstall and has no swap at all (just one large fs). > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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