Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:17:26 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT install problem Message-ID: <19980526181726.17568@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980526131310.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 01:13:10PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522173743.21115E-100000@misery.sdf.com> <XFMail.980526131310.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 01:13:10PM -0400, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On 23-May-98 Tom wrote: > > > > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > >> On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 10:41:41AM -0700, Tom wrote: > >> > Yes, it seems to be a sysinstall interaction. If I leave the space > >> > unallocated, and then disklabel and newfs it later, it works fine. > >> > > >> > Currently it is pretty hard to bootstrap a new DPT system. You have > >> > to > >> > be able to build a kernel somewhere else as sysinstall will install a > >> > non-DPT kernel, and you can't use sysinstall to allocate large DPT > >> > partitions. I fear for the new user. > >> > >> sysinstall doesn't do this anymore. The DPT driver is activated as > >> part of the standard sysinstall now. > > > > I've noticed that. But this won't help anyone until 2.2.7 is released, > > or somone makes a 2.2.6 snapshot with the new GENERIC kernel. > > I should have a kernel image in ftp://ftp.simon-shapiro.org/FreeBSD. This shouldn't be necessary any more - there are daily snapshots at ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD including the DPT driver. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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