From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 10:01:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10381 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from srv01.bigwheel.net (srv01.bigwheel.net [208.197.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10366 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@srv01.bigwheel.net) Received: (from doug@localhost) by srv01.bigwheel.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA11766; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810211701.KAA11766@srv01.bigwheel.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Doug Jolley Subject: Warning: Using existing root partition Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What does it mean when I'm doing an install and I encounter the following message: Warning: Using existing root partition. It will be assumed that you have the appropriate device entries already in /dev. I'm trying to do a virgin install. I'm clueless as to why it would want to use the existing root partition. Thanks for any input. ... doug _____________________________________________________________________ Doug Jolley mailto://doug@footech.com http://www.footech.com Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message