On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:01:52 -0600, Martin McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > The commit does not format the disk. There is no "last > chance" prompt. It goes right to the download and proceeds to > install FreeBSD all over mfs.
This seems to be obvious because no changes have been made to the disk (i. e. no slicing, no MBRin, no partitioning). > The CDROM for installing FreeBSD correctly formats the > drive and installs the OS on that very same box. My first > question is why doesn't the mfs do the same thing? This is a matter of what has been selected within the partition editor. If not "UFS2+S Y" is set, no formatting process will take place. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
