Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. I now tried the
OpenBSD 4.5-current (RAMDISK_CD) #140: Sun May 10 22:18:51 MDT 2009 snapshot. See result below. Kenneth R Westerback <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > > Problem 1: > > In disklabel step I select "Custom" and just do "write" and > > "quit". Before I would be asked for mount points but now I > > get: > > > > /install[111]: cannot open /tmp/fsstab.sd0: No such file or directory > > /install[111]: cannot open /tmp/fsstab.sd0: No such file or directory > > /install[111]: cannot open /tmp/fsstab.sd0: No such file or directory > > newfs: .... > > This now gives grep: fstab.sd0: No such file or directory '/' must be configured! And then I get the fdisk stage again. The grep line might be ugly but this is great. > > Problem 2: > > I disklabel step I select "Custom" and then I specify mount > > points for > > > > sd0a / > > sd0e /usr > > sd0f /var > > > > so no mount point for sd0d. > > > > Now I exit by "write" and "quit" and here the new installer > > will happily newfs my sd0d nulling my mail and my install > > files. > > > > So how does one keep slices between installations? > > I think this is the solution, but I can't test for a few hours > at least. So any test reports before then would be helpful. This now works and all my files are still there after install. Thank you, I am really starting to like thease updates to the installer.
