From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 2:32:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E44A37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:32:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D7E43E6E for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:32:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp) Received: from localhost (suiren.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.25]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id TAA21440 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:32:43 +0900 (JST) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems with DP2 install floppies ... ? X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20021120193243H.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:32:43 +0900 From: Jacques Garrigue X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 67 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 JG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message