From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 12 05:33:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA07784 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 05:33:22 -0800 Received: from w8hd.w8hd.org (w8hd.w8hd.org [198.252.159.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA07779 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 05:33:18 -0800 Received: (from kimc@localhost) by w8hd.w8hd.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA19370; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 08:33:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 08:33:08 -0500 (EST) From: Kim Culhan To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.flp for 1104 snap broken In-Reply-To: <14041.816148254@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > The installation on this snap appears broken, here are the details: > > > > 1) Booting from the floppy and into the menu-driven installation, I tried > > to create a FreeBSD 'partition' which appeared to work Ok. > > > > 2) Trying to create partitions and label same I can create some partitions > > (even using the autodefaults choice) but then it blows-up, complaining > > first that its unable to write to the swap partition > > You used `(W)rite' from the label screen, didn't you? > > This has been proven, for reasons I'm still unable to fathom, not to > work for systems that are not yet installed. I have therefore put > LARGE warning letters telling people to not use it for anything but > tweaking an existing system. You'll see this in 2.1. > > Don't use Write. Do your commit step in one go. Yes, I was trying to use Write and looks like I used the one-step commit in one attempt and thats what got it going. kim -- kimc@w8hd.org