From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 1 01:44:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22812 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 01:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22681; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 01:43:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA08638; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:42:57 GMT Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:42:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Gary Palmer cc: paul@originative.co.uk, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall In-Reply-To: <7884.917833444@gjp.erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Gary Palmer wrote: > paul@originative.co.uk wrote in message ID > : > > Has anyone installed a system using sysinstall from the 1990114 snap? I > > can't get it to work on my Multia, it fails to write the disklabel from the > > looks of things. > > > Any ideas? > > I've gotten the snap builder back working again (or rather, DFR did by making > the boot floppies small enough), so you might want to try a later snap (from > mirrors.rcn.com) 'cos sysinstall changes were made also. I fixed a few things in libdisk and sysinstall. The disklabel writing (as you noticed) was totally broken. I had only tested it on a disk which already had a label (oops). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message