Date: 08 Jun 2002 15:22:13 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jason Noble <jnoble@perlwizard.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting PXE to leave an existing partition alone Message-ID: <1023515535.8394.17.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <1023483386.1146.23.camel@ratbert.lightrealm.com> References: <1023483386.1146.23.camel@ratbert.lightrealm.com>
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On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 06:26, Jason Noble wrote: > /virtual partition line and it will not newfs the drive. The following > line does not work (i.e. all the data on /virtual goes bye bye): > > mlxd0s1-5=ufs 0 /virtual N > > Has anyone used pxe to upgrade a system and leave one or more existing > FreeBSD partitions alone? How should I go about this? I had a quick look through the code and it seems you need to specify soft-update-ness if you want to also specify newfs'ing or not. eg try.. mlxd00s1-5=ufs /virtual 1 N See line 1378 of label.c in src/release/sysinstall. Hope that helps :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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