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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 :)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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