From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jun 16 8:43:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1752637B401; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 08:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5GFniv67417; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:49:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:49:44 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues) Message-ID: <20010616174944.A67403@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010616022136.A41027@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010616082123.S25057-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010616082123.S25057-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com>; from minter@lunenburg.org on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 08:21:38AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-alpha.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-alpha> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-alpha> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 08:21:38AM -0400, H. Wade Minter wrote: Seems I need to re-phrase the -alpha docs a bit to make this clearer to the innocent ;-) Wilko > Excellent. I think that was the missing piece. > > Thanks, > Wade > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:11:59PM -0400, H. Wade Minter wrote: > > > I ran through the installer again, and I set the disk up like so: > > > > > > /dev/da0a - / > > > /dev/da0b - swap > > > > The order in which you assign them is important. Sysinstall knows that > > the swap partition must be `b'. Also that / must be `a'. However, if > > you first allocate swap and then /, you are telling Sysinstall to put the > > `b' partition before the `a' partition on your disk. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message ---end of quoted text--- -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message