From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 26 09:18:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25724 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:18:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25497; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:17:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA09118; Tue, 26 May 1998 16:17:37 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA15943; Tue, 26 May 1998 18:17:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980526181726.17568@follo.net> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:17:26 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Tom Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT install problem References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 01:13:10PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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