From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 19 00:08:31 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA02221 for current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:08:31 -0800 Received: from news.iadfw.net (jbryant@news.iadfw.net [204.178.72.99]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA02215 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:08:30 -0800 Received: from localhost (jbryant@localhost) by news.iadfw.net (8.6.5/8.6.6) id CAA05981; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 02:08:03 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199503190808.CAA05981@news.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: Minor problems installing 2.0-950210-SNAP To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 02:08:03 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Mar 18, 95 09:17:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1125 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:17:52 +0000 () > From: Brian Tao > To: Alan Judge > Subject: Re: Minor problems installing 2.0-950210-SNAP > > On Sat, 11 Mar 1995, Alan Judge wrote: > > > > Sometimes I get problems when doing fdisk or disklabel during the > > install process and the machine hangs. > > This one bites me every time I do an install. I'll go into > disklabel, create all the partitions in the BSD slice, hit 'W' to > write it out, then start 'A'ssigning the partitions, then I hit 'W' to > write it out again (I don't need to, but it's a habit). This is where > it hangs. Ctrl-Alt-Del still works though (syncs and reboots). i ran into this on a new install recently. apparently rebooting, then assigning the partitions works fine... Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@server.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America