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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:00:42 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall label.c
Message-ID:  <20030128050042.GA873@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <200301280400.h0S40S4Z024068@apollo.backplane.com>
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Thus spake Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>:
> 
> :Try to install without creating a swap partition.  I haven't tried
> :this since circa DP2, so I don't recall exactly what it bitched
> :about, but I think it complained before it wrote the label.
> :Someone (Eric McCoy, I think) mentioned on one of the lists that
> :it is still an issue as of 5.0-RELEASE.  I would try it myself if
> :I had a non-broken disk around that I could afford to trash.
> 
>     Ok, I tracked down the error message.
> 
>     Insofar as the swap goes I think we may simply be able to remove the
>     test, as in the patch below.  I haven't been able to test it yet
>     for a myrid of reasons... my attempt to 'make release' fails so I
>     cannot generate a new ISO,  sysinstall in multi-user tries to write over
>     / instead of installing on the specified hard disk, and so far my attempts
>     to hack sysinstall to make it install to the specified hard disk have
>     either failed with mounting errors or panic'd the system :-(.  And the
>     system I am testing on doesn't have a floppy.  So if someone else can
>     somehow test this it would be a help.

Your patch looks good to me.  Thanks!  I would have tracked down
the problem myself if I were in a better position to test
sysinstall.  However, as you mention, it's picky about where it
installs, and I don't have an extra disk I can trash right now
(unless you count an ancient Alpha with no floppy and a broken CDROM.)

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