Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:10:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: non-interactive sysinstall broken? Message-ID: <199809292010.QAA04440@hurricane.cs.duke.edu>
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I've happily used an "install.cfg" configuration file to automatically install FreeBSD 2.2.x on numerous machines in the past. However when attempting to install 3.0-BETA in the manner, I'm running into a problem where sysinstall is complaining that none of my partitions are configured and that it cannot newfs the root device. The error message below is approximately what it said, but it is transcibed from memory: Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rda0s1a! , device not configured Command returned status 1 Command `diskLabelCommit' failed - rest of script aborted. (it also complains that it cannot swap to /dev/da0s1b) The symptoms are the same using boot.flp from 3.0-19980927-BETA & from a locally built release done with sources from yesterday afternoon. The relevant section of my install.cfg is as follows: disk=da0 partition=all bootManager=none diskPartitionEditor diskPartitionWrite da0s1-1=ufs 196608 / da0s1-2=swap 1048576 none da0s1-3=ufs 2097152 /var da0s1-4=ufs 0 /usr diskLabelEditor diskLabelCommit installCommit If I comment out all but the following & manually nurse it through the parition/label steps, everything goes just fine. disk=da0 installCommit Am I doing something seriously wrong, or is sysinstall broken for non-interactive installs? Thanks, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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