From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 7 22:52:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B1137B400 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 22:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp318.sa.padsl.on.net [150.101.244.61]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g585qJQ14401; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:22:20 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g585qDac031712; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:22:15 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Getting PXE to leave an existing partition alone From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jason Noble Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1023483386.1146.23.camel@ratbert.lightrealm.com> References: <1023483386.1146.23.camel@ratbert.lightrealm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 08 Jun 2002 15:22:13 +0930 Message-Id: <1023515535.8394.17.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5 required=5 X-Spam-Level: (-5) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 06:26, Jason Noble wrote: > /virtual partition line and it will not newfs the drive. The following > line does not work (i.e. all the data on /virtual goes bye bye): > > mlxd0s1-5=ufs 0 /virtual N > > Has anyone used pxe to upgrade a system and leave one or more existing > FreeBSD partitions alone? How should I go about this? I had a quick look through the code and it seems you need to specify soft-update-ness if you want to also specify newfs'ing or not. eg try.. mlxd00s1-5=ufs /virtual 1 N See line 1378 of label.c in src/release/sysinstall. Hope that helps :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message