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From: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4
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On Tuesday 27 September 2005 09:36 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:41:57PM -0500, Jay Moore wrote:
> > I started an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 earlier, but postponed it until I
> > can understand why the upgrade requires input re the hard drive
> > configuration.
>
> What are you talking about? :-) Please describe your problem in more
> detail, e.g. exactly what you are doing and exactly what is going
> wrong.

I boot from the cd. sysinstall starts. shortly thereafter I get to the 
disklabel editor. the partitions are identified (and sized), but mount column 
is blank.

Why is the mount column blank? 

Thnx,
Jay