From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 12 20:40:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660DC10656E5 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f184.google.com (mail-pz0-f184.google.com [209.85.222.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A738FC0C for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk14 with SMTP id 14so3059150pzk.3 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:40:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=h4czgK3FqBuW4L8GplWGEFzzOcf0WmhOuWtRh1kJwE4=; b=RSygi3C90FCQoXweN6eB/KgslucEV1AgXedKCBWEU3iyG1/6R+U9ZC7mt4IqOs8gi6 dSO91ixaMnse66LzyAdXGm+Ax+VJIt3mcXinldK/Hl6BgiOAUH35rt7iq9QRJ47t+dSm M62Bgf6kYqVN+K+7VG/dq/348dg6BIEqNw/PQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=QLWT0kooHB/U++R1xB3BmquUZF3taMG8thpVyg8cFEocm5CcnVnPrRg+r6zHCfG/lv 0nHKh+GFaW3D4hPb27UUclgzGrv6hU/R0x+W9SYpfTik22765PaYtSyXS3kLruqNXWjU XsT8eBEZ23AWrBb/Geyhojs6vDoVzyN2WVu0o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.7.16 with SMTP id 16mr1264523wfg.117.1266007208806; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:40:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:40:08 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e2f8286a03a24eed Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: Martin McCormick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:40:09 -0000 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 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" >