From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 27 21: 0:46 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62CD37B401; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-233-57-224.client.attbi.com [12.233.57.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E8943F75; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:00:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0S50gZs000945; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h0S50gsm000944; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:00:42 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "David O'Brien" , Greg Lehey , 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> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Dillon , David O'Brien , Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200301251932.h0PJWZHo054126@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030125215919.GA6687@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030126013124.GD3641@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20030126210426.GA23132@dragon.nuxi.com> <200301262108.h0QL8WRs068598@apollo.backplane.com> <20030127071241.GC1018@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <200301280400.h0S40S4Z024068@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301280400.h0S40S4Z024068@apollo.backplane.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Matthew Dillon : > > :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.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message