Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:21:27 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 18gig drive's supported? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811100919330.15423-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199811100615.WAA00484@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Paul Saab wrote:
> >
> > > did you upgrade this system from a pre-cam system? If you did I
> > > think you need to upgrade sysinstall too.
> >
> > Yes...next question, how to upgrade sysinstall? Went into
> > /usr/src/release/sysinstall, typed 'make cleandir;make depend'...it
> > failed:
> >
> > file2c 'u_char boot0[] = {' '};' < /boot/boot0 >> makedevs.tmp
> > cannot open /boot/boot0: no such file
> > *** Error code 2
> >
> > Am still an aout system...if that means anything/helps?
>
> Go to /sys/boot and say 'make; make install' first. You haven't built
> the world for a long time it seems.
Surprisingly, I did...when I upgraded the system to its currently
level...:( Now I've got sysinstall upgraded and installed, but when I go
to 'label' or 'fdisk', it auto-presents me with da0, but doesn't give me
the old choices of working with any of the other drives...did I miss a new
command line switch her or something like that? Have read man pages, have
built a new libdisk.a *just in case*...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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