From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 11 19:51:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA21006 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:51:14 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA21001 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:51:10 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA14044; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:50:54 -0800 To: Kim Culhan cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.flp for 1104 snap broken In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:07:03 EST." Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:50:54 -0800 Message-ID: <14041.816148254@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > The installation on this snap appears broken, here are the details: > > 1) Booting from the floppy and into the menu-driven installation, I tried > to create a FreeBSD 'partition' which appeared to work Ok. > > 2) Trying to create partitions and label same I can create some partitions > (even using the autodefaults choice) but then it blows-up, complaining > first that its unable to write to the swap partition You used `(W)rite' from the label screen, didn't you? This has been proven, for reasons I'm still unable to fathom, not to work for systems that are not yet installed. I have therefore put LARGE warning letters telling people to not use it for anything but tweaking an existing system. You'll see this in 2.1. Don't use Write. Do your commit step in one go. Jordan