Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:30:01 -0700 (PDT) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/4334: sysinstall will not create disk slices Message-ID: <199708190630.XAA14944@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4334; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: garbanzo@hooked.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/4334: sysinstall will not create disk slices Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:17:59 +0200 As garbanzo@hooked.net wrote: > Sysinstall will fail to create new slices within a already created > partition. (Btw, FreeBSD uses the terms just opposite to you. Ok, i can still understand your problem.) > >How-To-Repeat: > On a system with scsi (not checked with IDE) disks, if one goes into > sysinstall, then selects Configure, Partition, sdx, writes the > changes, then goes into the label section, and creates a disk slice, > then attempts to write it out, sysinstall will return an error > similar to "newfs: /blah invalid argument". Following attempts to > write anything out will have sysinstall tell you that you've already > written everything to disk. I didn't use a 2.2 boot floppy, but a 2.2-stable one (made yesterday). Well, i assume you were using the "W)rite" options in the fdisk and label editors. Have you been warned? For me, it almost worked. Sysinstall did warn me that it would assume the device nodes for the newly created fdisk slice were already there (which they were not). But after the warning, i've been able to bail out into en Emergency Holographic Shell, and run MAKEDEV there. Of course, you need to specify the mount points of your already existing filesystems, at least those of the root filesystem. Sysinstall wants to write back the fstab. But since you've answered the question when pressing W)rite with `Yes', you are expected to know what you're doing, basically... Booting sysinstall from the installation floppy is probably not the best way for a post-installation configuration. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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