From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 00:50:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F09106566B for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.103.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185158FC18 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.cis.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o130nvrQ064461 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:49:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <201002030049.o130nvrQ064461@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <64459.1265158197.1@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:49:57 -0600 From: Martin McCormick Subject: Re: How does Sysinstall Mount File Systems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:50:09 -0000 Polytropon writes: > If I interpret your question correctly, you are intending to > ask how sysinstall can install on an already sliced, partitioned Correct. > and formatted disk; is this correct? > > You chose "Custom" for the installation. In the partition > editor, you assign the the located partitions to the functional > subtrees (/, swap, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home - or any layout you > want) and make sure that they are of the type "UFS+S" (except > / which is usually "UFS" without S), and the format option is > set to "N" which will cause sysinstall not to format the > partitions. I think I failed to do exactly that. I have been using FreeBSD and sysinstall for around 8 years but have never used sysinstall in this manner. When you run it from the CDROM, it quietly mounts everything after formatting the disk so I thought I should stay away from the partition editor as the drive is already formatted with Freebsd and swap partitions. > In other words: It's obvious - you just use the disk. :-) Thanks for clearing that up. I am discovering a load of details about sysinstall that I didn't know as well as I thought I did. I think I have asked my quota of really dumb questions for the day. Thanks to all for your patience. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group