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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Zander Collier <zcollier@concentric.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 2.2.2 installation problem
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On Fri, Sep 05, 1997 at 03:41:03AM -0700, Zander Collier wrote:
> I'm installing 2.2.2 release from CD ROM with /stand/sysinstall
> and am constantly running into the problem of the packages
> being written to the / slice instead of the /usr slice.
>
> Even after just installing the Linux compatibility libraries,
> the / slice reads like this:
>
> Filesystem   1K-blocks   Used      Avail    Capacity   Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a      31775	  29874     -641      102%     /
> /dev/wd0s1f  1803399	 251174	 1407954       15%     /usr
> /dev/wd0s1e    29727	   1200	   26149	4%     /var
> procfs	           4          4        0      100%     /proc
>
>
> Yes, I am doing everything I know how to do to install to /usr.
>
> Specifically, in the sysinstall/options, I specify '/usr' from the
> default '/'
>
> Am I doing things incorrectly, or am I saddled with a buggy
> sysinstall?

There's no bug in sysinstall that I know of.  What do you end up with
in your root file system?

Greg