Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 21:05, Gary Kline wrote: ks like. > > Yeah, I wound up trying the defaults because my custom creates > failed. With thr "auto defaults" newfs works, but I error out > on /usr. /usr is large.So the mount will fail, etc. (??) > Maybe a smaller

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:05:57PM +, RW wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:28, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > > > On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > If memory servers, the slices I created were > > > > ad0s2 / >

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 20:05, RW wrote: > Even > if you don't plan to use it you should do that to see what the default > looks like. Don't forget to delete the three partitions and create a single large slice, if you try to create a default set of partitions on a slice dimensioned to take /

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:28, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > If memory servers, the slices I created were > > > ad0s2 / > > > ad0s3 SWAP > > > ad0s4 /usr > > > > People no

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > If memory servers, the slices I created were > > ad0s2 / > > ad0s3 SWAP > > ad0s4 /usr > > People normally create a BSD partition table within an FDISK partiti

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Ean Kingston
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:22:43PM +, RW wrote: >> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote: >> >The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall. >> >Every options I have tries sees the "NTFS" as ad0s1. >> > >> >Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the dri

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: If memory servers, the slices I created were ad0s2 / ad0s3 SWAP ad0s4 /usr People normally create a BSD partition table within an FDISK partition, so / would be on ad0s2a, rather than using all of ad0s2 for a sing

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:22:43PM +, RW wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote: > > The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall. > > Every options I have tries sees the "NTFS" as ad0s1. > > > > Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive >

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote: > The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall. > Every options I have tries sees the "NTFS" as ad0s1. > > Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive > to give me more than three slices? This is where

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:44:46PM -0500, jason henson wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > I'm having trouble installing 5.3 from my 4CD set. I have > > a 10G Window partition; That leaves 3 slices available. > > > > I have tried various sizes for /, SWAP, and /usr, but newfs > >

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-22 Thread jason henson
Gary Kline wrote: I'm having trouble installing 5.3 from my 4CD set. I have a 10G Window partition; That leaves 3 slices available. I have tried various sizes for /, SWAP, and /usr, but newfs consistantly has trouble mounting /usr. I have no idea why. Af