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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:51:34 -0400 (AST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Problems with DP2 install floppies ... ?
Message-ID:  <20021119154931.N19853-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021119143143.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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'K, that is what I did ...

One final issue on this first attempt ... when I go into 'partition' an
existing drive, how do I get it to 'mount' my existing swap device?
rightnow, I just deleted and created it, but that just doesn't sound ...
safe ...

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote:

>
> On 19-Nov-2002 Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> > Just got everything up, made sure that it knew how to mount my file
> > systems, watched it fsck those same file systems ... but as soon as it
> > started to install, it reported out of space errors ...
> >
> > On ALT-F2, it looks like its trying to write to:
> >
> > ./usr/share/dict/..
> >
> > instead of, what I believe its supposed to be:
> >
> > /mnt/usr/share/dict/..
> >
> > which would explain why its running out of disk space, as its trying to
> > write to the floppy ... ?
> >
> > Going to ALT-F4 and doing a df shows that everything appears to be mounted
> > as expected (/mnt, /mnt/dev, /mnt/usr, etc) ...
> >
> > known problem, or did I screw up a step here?
> >
> > thanks ...
>
> Did you try to restart your install via Ctrl-C?  If so,
> don't, the restart stuff doesn't really work right.
>
> --
>
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/
>


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