Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:48:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does /stand/sysinstall overwrite existing system? Message-ID: <199605160948.LAA01108@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605150300.MAA08050@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> from Toshihiro Kanda at "May 15, 96 12:00:16 pm"
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As Toshihiro Kanda wrote: > I wonder if my previous mail was lost; sorry if you read the > folloings again. > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1 in sd1. There's an unformatted disk in sd0. > I wanted to install FreeBSD 2.2-960501 into sd0 by /stand/sysinstall > (which is in sd1). I selected only `[X] sd0' in the `Select Drive(s)' > dialog, then continued. You should have used the installation floppy instead. Sysinstall behaves differently when being run in place of /sbin/init (i.e., it knows that it's going to install a system then). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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