From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 20 19:49:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA22732 for current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:49:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from Pkrw.tcn.net (Pkrw.tcn.net [199.166.4.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22726 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (krw@localhost) by Pkrw.tcn.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA00189 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:52:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:52:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2R (src 2.2 211) /stand/sysinstall vs XFree86 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Having downloaded 2.2R (sans XFree86) onto a DOS partition I successfully installed it from that partition using a boot floppy I created as instructed in the installation documentation. Having played with it a while - customized the kernel, make world'ing etc. I decided to install XFree86. Good thing I waited - since all the binaries were updated early this morning! Having downloaded the new XFree86 stuff into the FreeBSD/XF8632 directory on my DOS partition I booted FreeBSD and ran /stand/sysinstall as root. I selected Custom installation, media DOS, custom distribution, and XFree86. When I choose commit I got the error message that compat21 could no be installed 'maybe because it's not on the media I chose'. After a little experimention it seemed clear that nothing would install from the DOS partition anymore. I then did a 'mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /cfat' and repeated my original process, this time specifying a source of 'existing file system' and giving a root of /cfat/FreeBSD. Everything worked. Is the DOS media selection only good during an initial installation? Or did I do something wrong? ---- Ken