From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 02:52:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA12766 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 02:52:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA12530 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 02:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA17220; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:51:05 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA14611; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:51:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA01108; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:48:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605160948.LAA01108@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Does /stand/sysinstall overwrite existing system? To: candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:48:27 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605150300.MAA08050@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> from Toshihiro Kanda at "May 15, 96 12:00:16 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)