Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:53:28 -0600 From: Aaron Siegel <aj@siegel-tech.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4 Message-ID: <200509290853.28547.aj@siegel-tech.net> In-Reply-To: <200509272218.53140.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> References: <200509271941.57840.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <20050928023653.GA12586@xor.obsecurity.org> <200509272218.53140.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
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Jay Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-steps.html I think I understand your question. Sysinstall's label editor does not obtain the labels from an existing installation, you have to relabel the all of the partitions everytime you run sysinstall. When I perform an upgrade using binaries I write down the output of the df command and use that to relabel the partitions. I have attached some examples of the disklabel editor bellow. The first is what the disk editor should look like before when you open it for the first time, the second is the out put of df, and the third is the disklabel with the mount points setup(corresponds to the df output). The Y and N tell the installer wheather you want to reformat that partition or leave it alone. Be very carefull with this. I reformat my / and /usr, if you have any data other than the system in these directories back them up. Bellow is an example of what the disklabel editor should look like when you first run sysinstall: FreeBSD Disklabel Editor Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0s2 Free: 61432560 blocks (29996MB) Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0s3 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ad0s1b swap 1024MB SWAP ad0s1a <none> 256MB * ad0s1d <none> 28716MB * ad0s3d <none> 92632MB * The following commands are valid here (upper or lower case): C = Create D = Delete M = Mount pt. W = Write N = Newfs Opts Q = Finish S = Toggle SoftUpdates Z = Custom Newfs T = Toggle Newfs U = Undo A = Auto Defaults R = Delete+Merge The output of df: <root@soyo># df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 253678 71116 162268 30% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1d 28476004 13801282 12396642 53% /usr /dev/ad0s3d 93352888 16840342 69044316 20% /usr/home linprocfs 4 4 0 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc /dev/cd0 530556 530556 0 100% /cdrom This is how it should look for performing the install FreeBSD Disklabel Editor Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0s2 Free: 61432560 blocks (29996MB) Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0s3 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ad0s1b swap 1024MB SWAP ad0s1a / 256MB UFS2 Y ad0s1d /usr/home 28716MB UFS2+S N ad0s3d /usr 92632MB UFS2+S Y The following commands are valid here (upper or lower case): C = Create D = Delete M = Mount pt. W = Write N = Newfs Opts Q = Finish S = Toggle SoftUpdates Z = Custom Newfs T = Toggle Newfs U = Undo A = Auto Defaults R = Delete+Merge On Tuesday 27 September 2005 9:18 pm, Jay Moore wrote > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 09:36 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:41:57PM -0500, Jay Moore wrote: > > > I started an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 earlier, but postponed it until > > > I can understand why the upgrade requires input re the hard drive > > > configuration. > > > > What are you talking about? :-) Please describe your problem in more > > detail, e.g. exactly what you are doing and exactly what is going > > wrong. > > I boot from the cd. sysinstall starts. shortly thereafter I get to the > disklabel editor. the partitions are identified (and sized), but mount > column is blank. > > Why is the mount column blank? > > Thnx, > Jay > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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