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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:06:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Problems with DP2 install floppies ... ?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021119160659.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021119154931.N19853-100000@hub.org>

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On 19-Nov-2002 Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> 'K, that is what I did ...
> 
> One final issue on this first attempt ... when I go into 'partition' an
> existing drive, how do I get it to 'mount' my existing swap device?
> rightnow, I just deleted and created it, but that just doesn't sound ...
> safe ...

Hmm, not sure.  I don't think we currently support that.

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 19-Nov-2002 Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> >
>> > Just got everything up, made sure that it knew how to mount my file
>> > systems, watched it fsck those same file systems ... but as soon as it
>> > started to install, it reported out of space errors ...
>> >
>> > On ALT-F2, it looks like its trying to write to:
>> >
>> > ./usr/share/dict/..
>> >
>> > instead of, what I believe its supposed to be:
>> >
>> > /mnt/usr/share/dict/..
>> >
>> > which would explain why its running out of disk space, as its trying to
>> > write to the floppy ... ?
>> >
>> > Going to ALT-F4 and doing a df shows that everything appears to be mounted
>> > as expected (/mnt, /mnt/dev, /mnt/usr, etc) ...
>> >
>> > known problem, or did I screw up a step here?
>> >
>> > thanks ...
>>
>> Did you try to restart your install via Ctrl-C?  If so,
>> don't, the restart stuff doesn't really work right.
>>
>> --
>>
>> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
>> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/
>>
> 

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