Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:40:08 -0800 From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question Message-ID: <e277d6c81002121240p2b6c97b6x2dfa87c828f4f4fc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Please create a PR for any problems you find here or additions to install.cfg that you would like to see, and I'll take a look at it. -- randi On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found > out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive > rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not > something you can set in the partition editor or disklabel > editor. It is found in the very first menu which oddly is > numbered 2 and is the options editor. The option that makes it > all work is one that lets you specify where you want the > distribution to go on the drive. It is always set for you when > using the CDROM unless you were formatting another disk so it is > kind of easy to miss. I missed it for a week and a half. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Now the question. There are a bunch of functions that > can be set in sysinstall such as the bsdlabel editor, partition > editor and dists to name a few. It would be nice to be able to > set that mount point in install.cfg because I am trying to make > a script that coworkers can run to configure a system quickly > without having to waste a week of their own trying to figure it > all out. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0It turns out that one can format the disk, mount > /dev/ad0s1a on /mnt and then one must set the root option to > /mnt and things work so much better! > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Occasionally, /var fills up and I haven't figured out > why but it appears that ftp gets ahead of the ability to store > the files. Whatever it happening, it is now more right than > wrong. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Again, thanks for all your help. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ =A0Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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