Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:32:43 +0900 From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems with DP2 install floppies ... ? Message-ID: <20021120193243H.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
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Since I finally succeded in installing DP2 booting from floppy, I thought I might answer. On 19-Nov-2002 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > '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 ... I did the same. A bit strange (why would we need a swap during installation anyway), but not dangerous, since you're not formatting anything. > 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. This may be related to Ctrl-C, but considering the time it takes to reboot, I'm willing to take the risk... Finally I could locate the problem: go to the options screen and set the installation root to /mnt. For some reason it is /, which seems wrong. After that I could install... but failed after the install finished for some other reason I don't remember. I couldn't do the post-install configuration, but since it was enough to boot, I just did it after reboot. And now, after compiling the packages that are not available, I have a nice running system. Is the floppy network install really working if you don't hit Ctrl-C? I seem to remember it was failing anyway, but I might be wrong. Aside question: I realized that the compiler sets -mcpu=pentiumpro by default. Is it the correct option for a Crusoe CPU? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Garrigue Kyoto University garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp <A HREF=http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/>JG</A>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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