Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:57:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000721135228.22357B-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu> In-Reply-To: <4985.964212560@localhost>
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At least for myself and several others who had this problem: you will never get to the install setup up if your system already has a BSD (Tru64/NetBSD/Linux (using BSD disk label) and from Matt's example, a FreeBSD disk with the /sbin/init clobbered) or OpenVMS system disk. FreeBSD will load the kernel, load the install MFS but then will fail to find the MFS init routine -- I guess it will try to look for it on the BSD/VMS disk and will fail to find it. On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > > Seems like it would be an easy thing to try to reproduce: just put a > > > couple of disks on the system and install Tru64/NetBSD/Linux/OpenVMS on > > > one of them and then try to install FreeBSD on the other disk... > > > > You don't even have to do that. Just take a previous FreeBSD installation and > > move /sbin/init aside and create a zero length /sbin/init. > > I'm still not sure I understand how that should have any effect. > You're doing an install here, right? And the install is going to > newfs the root filesystem and repopulate it with distribution bits, > right? > > If you're somehow electing to preserve the existing root partition > and/or not extract, at a minimum, bindist then this isn't an > installation at all, this is some sort of "you must know what you're > doing well enough not to shoot your feet off" quasi-upgrade operation. > Please clarify. Thanks. > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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