From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 05:22:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22157 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 05:22:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0574.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.190.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22149 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 05:22:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA16614; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:21:27 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:21:27 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Mike Smith cc: Paul Saab , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 18gig drive's supported? In-Reply-To: <199811100615.WAA00484@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Paul Saab wrote: > > > > > did you upgrade this system from a pre-cam system? If you did I > > > think you need to upgrade sysinstall too. > > > > Yes...next question, how to upgrade sysinstall? Went into > > /usr/src/release/sysinstall, typed 'make cleandir;make depend'...it > > failed: > > > > file2c 'u_char boot0[] = {' '};' < /boot/boot0 >> makedevs.tmp > > cannot open /boot/boot0: no such file > > *** Error code 2 > > > > Am still an aout system...if that means anything/helps? > > Go to /sys/boot and say 'make; make install' first. You haven't built > the world for a long time it seems. Surprisingly, I did...when I upgraded the system to its currently level...:( Now I've got sysinstall upgraded and installed, but when I go to 'label' or 'fdisk', it auto-presents me with da0, but doesn't give me the old choices of working with any of the other drives...did I miss a new command line switch her or something like that? Have read man pages, have built a new libdisk.a *just in case*... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message