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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:09:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Matt Saunders <matts@easynet.net>
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Subject: Re: Problems overwriting old BSDI disks?
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Matt Saunders wrote:

> We've upgraded a number of our machines to FreeBSD 2.2.(5|6) from
> BSDI BSD/OS 3.1.  Each and every time we do this (reusing the old BSDI
> hard disk) sysinstall hangs shortly after it runs, at the "probing
> devices" screen.

Are you sure it's hung and not reprobing the disks several times?  It does
this on my laptop -- takes about 45 seconds to a minute to complete.  I
don't have old UFS partitions laying around tho.

> This is on pretty standard IDE-only hardware.
> 
> The only solution seems to be to completely wipe out the old system
> with something like DOS fdisk which works, but is a pain.

Sort of -- it could be confusing sysinstall because it looks like a UFS
volume but isn't quite.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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