From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 18:10:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E773A37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F42F43E3B for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ripper@eskimo.com) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27150; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:27 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id SAA11782; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:27 -0700 From: Ross Lippert To: Pascal Giannakakis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to get a fresh install Message-ID: <20021023181027.A10628@eskimo.eskimo.com> References: <20021023165019.B4810@eskimo.eskimo.com> <20021023171119.B6258@eskimo.eskimo.com> <003701c27af5$82aa24c0$0200a8c0@capm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <003701c27af5$82aa24c0$0200a8c0@capm>; from capm@gmx.net on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:37:11AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.eskimo.com/~ripper Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doh! Actually I was helping someone else make a fresh install and I hadn't realized she'd started sysinstall from her 4.6 prompt and not from a CD boot. Sorry for the trouble. -r On Thursday, 24 October 2002 at 2:37:11 +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > > > I'm trying to make a fresh install on a computer which had > > > 4.6 on it (installing 4.7) and for some reason, although the > > > NEWFS=Y in every row of the disklabel dialog, I am seeing clear > > > signs that sysinstall is reading my old /var/db/pkg info among > > > other things. > > I don't wanna be impolite, but are you booting from CD so that adx is > unmounted and are you sure that the "Y" is for NEWFS and not for > Soft-Updates? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message