Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:41:56 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question Message-ID: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not something you can set in the partition editor or disklabel editor. It is found in the very first menu which oddly is numbered 2 and is the options editor. The option that makes it all work is one that lets you specify where you want the distribution to go on the drive. It is always set for you when using the CDROM unless you were formatting another disk so it is kind of easy to miss. I missed it for a week and a half. Now the question. There are a bunch of functions that can be set in sysinstall such as the bsdlabel editor, partition editor and dists to name a few. It would be nice to be able to set that mount point in install.cfg because I am trying to make a script that coworkers can run to configure a system quickly without having to waste a week of their own trying to figure it all out. It turns out that one can format the disk, mount /dev/ad0s1a on /mnt and then one must set the root option to /mnt and things work so much better! Occasionally, /var fills up and I haven't figured out why but it appears that ftp gets ahead of the ability to store the files. Whatever it happening, it is now more right than wrong. Again, thanks for all your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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