Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 01:01:29 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <k.#nojunk#keithley@opengroup.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-980311-SNAP "upgrade" post mortem Message-ID: <2835.893664089@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 02:23:40 EDT." <3544246C.2781E494@opengroup.org>
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> saved fstab and my wd2s1 disk would be okay. As the upgrade proceeded it
> wouldn't mount the wd0s2x partitions (tried mounting them by hand in the
> emergency holographic shell and got the bad superblock error) and thus
> it couldn't backup my /etc before proceeding. (The install process gave
Hmmmm! Extreme oddness.
> (BTW, What's the fdisk/disklabel utility that's on the boot floppy, and
> why can't the "real" fdisk and disklabel utilities be replaced with
> that?)
Tradition. :) You could always make little function aliases for
/stand/sysinstall's internal functions, of course, ala:
fdisk() {
/stand/sysinstall diskPartitionEditor
}
disklabel {
/stand/sysinstall diskLabelEditor
}
I suppose...
> I did qualify it as the 3.0-980311-SNAP. That was, and still is the only
> snap that's on ftp.cdrom.com/ftp.freebsd.org. Is there a newer snap
> somewhere else? What file or files should I get from -current to make
ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
Always contains the very latest snaps for both 3.0 and 2.2 branches.
Jordan
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