From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 22 9:30:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB8F37B416 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0MHU1A49832; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:30:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201221730.g0MHU1A49832@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Cameron Watters Subject: Re: docs/34074: Handbook section 12.3 -- Adding Disks incomplete instructions for using disklabel Reply-To: Cameron Watters Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/34074; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Cameron Watters To: Hiten Pandya Cc: , Subject: Re: docs/34074: Handbook section 12.3 -- Adding Disks incomplete instructions for using disklabel Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:24:28 -0800 (PST) HP> Sorry for the bluntness, but, AFAIK, all requests by HP> /stand/sysinstall are normally completed without any HP> errors. Quoting from the handbook: "Ignore any errors from Sysinstall that it could not mount the new partition." This, in fact, is exactly what happens. Further, when I actually ran disklablel -W and THEN ran sysinstall, it didn't give me this error message. HP> The man page, does mention about the -W option, and HP> its actions, but I've never found the need to apply HP> this parameter to disklabel(8). I wouldn't have submitted this unless I hadn't tried for an hour to get the Handbook's instructions to work correctly. HP> Does this disklabel(8) issue arise only in certain HP> conditions? I should clarify that this only happens when using sysinstall on a system that has already been setup once. As the handbook directs, I was using it to add additional disks to an existing installation of FreeBSD. However, that is exactly the activity this portion of the handbook is trying to cover. --cameron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message