From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 13 23:30:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.switch.aust.com (ppp63.adsl238.pacific.net.au [203.143.238.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FB237B401 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 23:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.switch.aust.com (IDENT:root@ras.wa [10.0.1.140]) by mail.switch.aust.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12726; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:30:10 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: server1.ussbris: Host IDENT:root@ras.wa [10.0.1.140] claimed to be smtp2.switch.aust.com Received: from freebsd06.udt (nelsont@freebsd06.udt [10.0.2.56]) by smtp2.switch.aust.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9E6lsw31338; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:47:56 +0800 Received: by freebsd06.udt (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:24:17 +0800 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:24:17 +0800 From: Trent Nelson To: Bob Willcox Cc: David Wolfskill , current list Subject: Re: Best way to get a system on current? Message-ID: <20011014142416.A17205@freebsd06.udt> References: <20011012111534.C49550@luke.immure.com> <200110121620.f9CGKZj15470@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20011012113630.E49550@luke.immure.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011012113630.E49550@luke.immure.com>; from bob@immure.com on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:36:30AM -0500 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 Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:36:30AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:20:35AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > Might help if you provided a pointer to the problems you had in the > > "upgrade from -STABLE" case. For that matter, a bit more detail on the > > "install failed to mount the filesystems" for the "install from -CURRENT > > snapshot" case would be of interest, as well. > As for the snapshot install, since it's errors were only written to the > screen I have to work from memory here as well. I believe the first > complaint had to do with the filesystems to be mounted (/mnt/usr, for > example) not specified in fstab. Since all of the mounts to /mnt failed, > the system fails pretty soon apparently running out of space in /. Ahh, so I'm not the only one that ran into this problem. I thought I'd balked something up myself, so I did some extensive fiddling to try and rectify the problem. I got it working eventually by issuing newfs manually on each of the new partitions, mounting them on their respective /mnt mount points (i.e. /mnt, /mnt/var, /mnt/usr, etc), then symlinking these back to their root mount point equivalents (/var, /var/tmp, /usr, etc). I actually did all of this while the sysinstall dialog was still up on the first terminal -- once I'd fiddled with all the mount points and selected to try and install the bin distribution again, it worked. Not exactly an elegant solution, unfortunately. It'd be interesting to hear if anyone else has this problem. > Thanks, > Bob Regards, Trent. -- Trent Nelson - Software Engineer - nelsont@switch.aust.com "A man with unlimited enthusiasm can achieve almost anything." --unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message