Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:01:21PM -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sysinstall is not build with 'make world', and should not be used on a system that's been updated that way. Well, thanks for the pointer, I've never looked at sysinstall build process. -- Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?
Hi Mike, On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:01:21PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 04:21:19PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: Is is not possible to configure and add a second disk via the /stand/sysinstall Label and Fdisk menu's? ... I got this, too, ... but Hmm, yes I got it too. Me thinks it's related to change from block devices to char and to the MAKEDEV. Anybody out there please correct me if I'm wrong. I had to do standard disklabel -rw ad1 auto and after that edit the disklabel by hand. It's certainly not Sysinstall is not build with 'make world', and should not be used on a system that's been updated that way. ... but my /stand/sysinstall came from a freshly installed snapshot (19991208). In principle I'm (or was) rather used to using disklabel for labeling new disks. But recently (I would say for the last 12 months) I had various difficulties in disklabeling new drives. (on -stable and on -current) I found a solution in each of the cases eventually, but it made me not really happy. Once I just 'dd-ed' an existing label from another disk. This time I tried this strategy, too, but to no avail, since writing back the afterwards edited disklabel seemed not to be possible. (the "no space left on device"-message appeared ... ) ... just after having the standard disklabel -rw ad0 auto (my boot disk is da0) complained about 'no space left on device'. Yes, ... I did the disklabel -W ad0 ... You forgot to overwrite the beginning of the disk. ... and yes I did (before doing the 'fdisk') a nice little dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad0 count=1 Do you have any further hints? Kind regards, Andreas Sidemark: Yes, ... I'm running -current on a few machines (and yes I know, that I get what I pay for ;). I'm used to live with -current since I switched my cvsup-Tag from stable to current on a 'brand new' dual PPro/200. standard disclaimer: I really don't want to sound insulting or arrogating or whatsoever. If anybody really might read such an undertone from my message(s), please ignore it and blame it on my rather ugly written English. -- Andreas Braukmann - TSE GmbH - Neue Medien - http://www.tse-online.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?
Okay that explains it, have to go back to the good old shell command's then... Thanks, Ron. - Original Message - Is is not possible to configure and add a second disk via the /stand/sysinstall Label and Fdisk menu's? ... I got this, too, ... but Sysinstall is not build with 'make world', and should not be used on a system that's been updated that way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?
... just after having the standard disklabel -rw ad0 auto (my boot disk is da0) complained about 'no space left on device'. Yes, ... I did the disklabel -W ad0 ... You forgot to overwrite the beginning of the disk. ... and yes I did (before doing the 'fdisk') a nice little dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad0 count=1 Do you have any further hints? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=16 disklabel -rwB ad0 auto works. At some point you deviated from this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 10:12:16AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:01:21PM -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sysinstall is not build with 'make world', and should not be used on a system that's been updated that way. Well, thanks for the pointer, I've never looked at sysinstall build process. # cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall # make all install This is in the "make world" section of the Handbook (makeworld.html), in the "Update /stand" section. N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
