On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:27:26PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:29:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > Anyway, the above is a long-winded justification for the following
> > suggestions:
> > 1) if disklabel has already been told about '/', then it
> >
At 1:43 AM -0400 7/21/01, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>[I'm not sure I made this obvious in my previous message, but these
>suggestions were meant for the situation where the user is doing a
>single install where they are spraying freebsd slices across multiple
>partitions -- as was in the case in th
At 9:27 PM -0700 7/20/01, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:29:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>> Now, remember that during the boot-up process, the "boot0" code requires
>> that the "partition to boot from" be the first partition in the slice.
>> The "boot1" code assumes th
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:29:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> Now, remember that during the boot-up process, the "boot0" code requires
> that the "partition to boot from" be the first partition in the slice.
> The "boot1" code assumes that the "partition to boot from" is labelled
> "partiti
Here's an example where the current behavior of sysinstall and/or
disklabel got in the way of what I intended to do. Once I figured
out what exactly was happening, I understand why it happens and how
to get around it. Certainly I was doing a non-standard setup, but
it "seemed simple enough", and
Dear All,
>
> The Alpha's root *must* be the first partition
> (starting at the
> "begining" of the disk). People often know how much swap
> they want, and
> take what is left for other things. So they allocate swap first.
> Sysinstall's disk editor gives no feedback on how it is going
> to
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:47:26PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >+ Allow one to specify the partition letter, than assumeing `e'.
> >+ Allow one to specify the ordering of partitions that will be written.
> > Alpha users keep getting bit in the ass because sysinstall orders the
> > swap p
From: Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:28:26 -0400
> However, there is some kind of column-counting mistake there,
> such that if you are creating more than one columns-worth of
> partitions, then
At 2:29 PM -0700 7/10/01, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 10, 2001, Bill Moran wrote:
> > Now, I've never used partition magic, but I (personally) find
> > the FreeBSD partition program in sysinstall to be the easiest
> > one I've ever used.
> > What should be changed to make it easier?
>
>M
coming from thread "Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral"...
At 4:30 PM -0400 7/10/01, Bill Moran wrote:
>*sigh* this has gotten way off track somehow. Looking back, I'm
>probably primarily to blame.
>
>The fact is: *I* *AM* interested in replacing or helping out with
>an effort to replace/improve sys
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