On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 1) Soft Updates enabled on a root partition.
>
> This comes back to the old "you can't turn SU
> on or off, except via tunefs". So even if you
> boot via CDROM, it's too late, if the CDROM
> kernel supports SU, since it's already on, and
> you can't substitute an async mount.
Why not? The install kernel does not have SOFTUPDATES enabled.
Can one not mount a parition aync if the softupdates flag was set via
tunefs in the past [and the running kernel does not support them]?
> 2) Most of my upgrades are over a network, not
> booting off of CDROM.
How are you running sysinstall? I do not know what you mean by "over the
network". To me that means you have made the two boot floppy set and
used that -- the "network" part is where you are getting your
distribution sets from. In this case, you *are* running sysinstal as
init. Perhaps I do not fully understand how you are doing this.
> 3) The default in 4.3-RELEASE is to have the IDE
> write caching off.
If you submit a patch to add the proper entries to /boot/loader.conf in
the MFSROOT image, I'd commit it. This would ensure the installation
process always runs with write cashing on.
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-- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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