From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 24 20:57:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA14281 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA14276 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA04909; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:56:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Randall Hopper cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about "sysinstall" Errors In-Reply-To: <19970819191211.29132@ct.picker.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Randall Hopper wrote: > I'm trying to do something I think should be very simple -- run > sysinstall on an installed system to allocate a sizable free slice of disk > to FreeBSD. This will be "wd1s2", with the intent of having: DId you do this by booting the boot floppy or running from /stand/sysinstall? Try running it from a regular boot and see http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo