Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 19:09:52 UT From: rob@pythonemproject.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re: Can Sysinstall now deal with 2 FBSD partitions? Message-ID: <200205171909.PAA93949@mmm1902.dulles19-verio.com>
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I made a new slice and labeled it. And the install went to the old slice. Simple as that. And nowhere did it ask what slice I wanted to use. Now what I am wondering is if the newer sysinstall has that functionality? Rob. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> >To: rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> >Sent: Fri, 17 May 2002 18:15:27 > >rob wrote: >> I had an older version of -stable and tried to >install the -Current >> developer release image via my already installed >-stable version. (I >> could boot from the cd, but then its kernel >didn't recognize my CDROM >> drive.) So I proceeded with /stand/sysinstall, >created a new partition, >> and labeled it, and then installed -Current from >the CDROM source. But >> it went and overwrote my old partition instead of >installing on the new >> partition. So I cvsup'ed back to -stable. > >I don't see why this should happen. To avoid >confusion, let's stick >to FreeBSD terminology where an MSDOS-style >partition is a "slice" and >a UFS-style partition is a "partition". I assume >you mean that you had >two FreeBSD slices. sysinstall asks you which >slice you want to >install to, and then asks you to partition that >slice for /, /usr, >swap, and so on (with some reasonable defaults). >At that point, did you >make sure that you chose the right slice? eg, if >you have slices 1 >and 2, and you wanted to install on slice 2, the >root would have been >/dev/ad0s2a (or something like that). Your >existing freebsd >installation would be using /dev/ad0s1a. If you >chose the appropriate >slice, that's where sysinstall should have done the >install. > >- Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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