Date: 25 Jul 2003 14:03:33 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble installing Message-ID: <447k66jxfu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.53-CIS.0307211755430.591@af.pbqrshfvbavf.pbz> References: <Pine.BSO.4.53-CIS.0307211755430.591@af.pbqrshfvbavf.pbz>
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Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org> writes: > I tried to install FreeBSD 5.1 today, and ran into several issues. Please bear in mind that it is a bleeding-edge release. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html > 1. why do i need to create a swap partition? (i can deal with it, just a > little extra aggravation.) You shouldn't need to; certainly I don't remember needing to on earlier releases, although it will go "boom" pretty decisively if the install does run out of virtual memory. > 2. why does sysinstall pick disklabel values that clearly can't work? Those are the values that typically do work... > 3. why is there no /dev/ad0s2b node? how do i create it, since i > need a swap partition? That's in the partitioning step. > 4. what do i enter into the file system box? the DOS partition isn't > mounted, and i have no idea how to mount it. Hmm. I don't have a system I can currently use to play with 5.x, so I can't really tell...
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