From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 15:13:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29187 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29161 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02391; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:16:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810162216.PAA02391@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: ulf@Alameda.net cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:01:27 PDT." <19981016150127.B18717@Alameda.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:16:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > With the "FreeBSD only" machines, you have a single slice with all your > > partitions inside it, right? > > Sorry, let me name it different: > > sysinstall->Partition->Create one partition, size it as full disk, but not > dedicated. > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create swap (128 or 256MB) > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create root (usual 100 or 200MB) > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /usr (usual ~500MB) > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /var (usual 100 or 200MB) > sysinstall->Disklabel->Create /usr/local (using the rest of the space) > > This is the usual order I enter the file systems in the sysinstall Disklabel. I'm working on the details right now, but you *must* create root and swap in that order. Doing it the other way around confuses something; I'm not yet sure what. This was pointed out by another poster several days ago. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message