From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 15:35:44 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA00117 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:35:44 -0700 Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA00110 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:35:42 -0700 Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0soICx-000r3yC; Thu, 31 Aug 95 15:35 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: Julian Elischer cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with initial FreeBSD (2.0.5 CD) installation attempts In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:35:06 -0700." <199508312135.OAA00824@ref.tfs.com> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:35:38 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer wrote: > no that is quite legal the s number refers to the slot in the 4 element > array.. in that case the 3rd slot isn't marked as 'valid'.. that's all. Hey...when grasping at straws, even the slightly out-of-the-ordinary gets a second look. Hmmm...now that you mention it, I could swear I saw the phrase "invalid partition table" at some point during all of this, but definitely not when I was collecting geometry and partitioning numbers for my plea for help. > > ** have / & some misc stuff on the wd0s2 slice. > > ** use the sd0s2 slice as a swap partition for both Linux & FreeBSD. > > Presumably this would involve laying a disklabel on it (I seem to remember > > Joerg Wunsch describing this recently) from /etc/rc* somewhere. > no.. to use the whole slice, > you just need to add a line in your fstab for /dev/sd0s2 > (do it after you're installed) > don't label it.. Cool...it doesn't care what "type" the partition is marked? or if there are any magic signature numbers in there to designate it as a swap area? > > ** use the sd0s3 slice for my /usr partition. > > you must disklabel THAT to have usr and more there.. Yup...the disklabel process in in the installation procedure takes care of that. I DO manage to get everything installed - the trouble is that things go loopy shortly thereafter. I even got as far as snagging some of my config files for UUCP/cu and dialing out at one point. Thanx, Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org