From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 10 11:46:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE8D37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:46:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD70A43F5B for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5207 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2003 19:46:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Jan 2003 19:46:38 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0AJkHUT091012; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:46:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1042249658snx@hclb.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:46:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: (Dave Evans) Subject: RE: cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap part Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 10-Jan-2003 Dave Evans wrote: > My current installation is this: > > ad0s3a / 500MB > ad0s3e 500MB > ad0s3b 2000MB > ad0s3f /mountpoint1 5000MB > ad0s3g /mountpoint2 10000MB > ad0s3h /mountpoint3 40000MB > > I have -Current on ad0s3a and 4.0 or 4.7 on ad0s3e. Both partitions are > below the 1024 cyl limit, which is why ad0s3e appears before ad0s3b. > > I now want to install 5.0-DP2 on ad0s3e so that I can test it for a > while. I have the cdrom and have created boot floppies. I've booted the > floppy and selected "upgrade existing installation", but it won't let me > define the current ad0s3b partition as swap in the disklabel editor. It > refuses to proceed unless there is a swap partition. Surely I don't have > to delete the existing partitions and recreate them? What is the secret > of defining a swap partition? This is a known bug that I'm about to commit a fix for. It should be fixed in 5.0-release. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message