From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 16:07:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08990 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (gatekeeper.Alameda.net [207.90.181.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08949 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA22574; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19981016160618.A22426@Alameda.net> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:06:18 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <19981016150127.B18717@Alameda.net> <199810162216.PAA02391@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810162216.PAA02391@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:16:08PM -0700 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. > I know that is was pointed out, but I also had problems with newfs on a ccd, which was not done via sysinstall and has no swap at all (just one large fs). > -- > \\ 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 > -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message