From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 07:33:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA13573 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA13566 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:33:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:31:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09489; Tue, 26 Aug 97 10:31:53 EDT Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA11624; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:28:52 -0400 Message-Id: <19970826102851.45148@ct.picker.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:28:51 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Doug White Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about "sysinstall" Errors References: <19970819191211.29132@ct.picker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Sun, Aug 24, 1997 at 08:56:55PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White: |On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Randall Hopper wrote: | |> I'm trying to do something I think should be very simple -- run |> sysinstall on an installed system to allocate a sizable free slice of disk |> to FreeBSD. This will be "wd1s2", with the intent of having: | |DId you do this by booting the boot floppy or running from |/stand/sysinstall? | |Try running it from a regular boot and see |http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html. /stand/sysinstall. Behavior-wise, I wouldn't have expected it to run any different from the floppy. Same program, same OS. But I will try it out. Thanks for the suggestion. Randall