From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 21:36:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA26202 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 21:36:47 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA26195 ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 21:36:46 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Hinrich Eilts cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 95 19:45:53 +0200." <199506051745.TAA00512@odin> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 21:36:46 -0700 Message-ID: <26194.802413406@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > For installation this means to get a simple shell. > According to doc, "Esc" should spawn a shell, but it dosen't. Documentation fault - this feature was replaced by another equivalent (but safer) feature later. The documentation is now adjusted to describe the new state of affairs! > After some tries with the new install-floppies (including the > Jun 04. - floppies) I installed 2.0.5 over an 2.0 system with > 2 slices: first DOS, secound FreeBSD. If it is booted with an > 2.0-kernel, anything looks ok, but booting with an 2.0.5-kernel, > I got (from dmesg) > sd0: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > sd0: start 204800, end 4108287, size 3903488 It will still use this, but it will whine. It is better if you can reinstall your system completely, with everything properly aligned in cylinder boundries (something the new sysinstall does) but if you can't, then you can still use the old FreeBSD slices. The DOS partitions that you used to mount move out to "slice space", e.g. "sd0s1", "sd1s4", etc. Read the new documentation now available with the label editor for a more thorough description of slices! Jordan