From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 13: 7: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D1F37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C591943E8A for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:06:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 30939 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2002 21:07:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Nov 2002 21:07:04 -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 gAJL6t2D031702; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:06:55 -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: <20021119154931.N19853-100000@hub.org> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:06:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: RE: Problems with DP2 install floppies ... ? Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ >> > -- 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-current" in the body of the message