Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 19:37:49 -0400 From: media@ct1.nai.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: obtaining partition information?? Message-ID: <v03130300b603d889e7a4@[209.150.35.93]> In-Reply-To: <v03130307b603bd7a1d4b@[209.150.35.93]> References: <39DE4AA5.691A@misa.ac.ru>
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I'm following up my own question, with another question :) If I boot from the 4.1 CD-ROM I can go into stand/sysinstall and the choose upgrade. However this brings me to another "fdisk" utility which does not show an existing FreeBSD partition!! I don't know why -- I would just like to use my old slices. I would think changing the slices would erase any other data I have. Besides, people on this list have suggested that the removal of the bad block scan in 4.1 is the reason why I cannot install it directly in the first place. Regardless, UPGRADE.TXT says that I should make a note of my mount points before I upgrade. If I enter "cat /etc/fstab" I can see my mount points, but it does not tell me how large my slices are, so that I can re-enter the same information into the disk editor. Where can I get this information so that I can keep my slices the same size?? At 5:41 PM -0400 10/06/00, media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > >I have a 133 Pentium (Compaq Deskpro 4000). My CR-ROM drive is a Creative >5230E. I don't have a SCSI card. I have not been able to install using >the 4.1 CD-ROM (I get "panic: lockmgr: non-zero exclusive count") and have >not been able to solve the problem. So I re-installed 3.4 from CD-ROM. > >I checked both books, and there is quite a bit about updating FreeBSD over >a network. However, I can't seem to find anything about using a CD-ROM. I >assume I could use the sources on the 4.1 CD-ROM to upgrade my 3.4 >installation to 4.1, but I don't know how. Any ideas?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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