Re: Partitions per slice limitation removed?

2009-10-27 Thread Andrew Von Cid
Hi, No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]: Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions. [1]

Re: Scripting sysinstall

2008-02-29 Thread Andrew Von Cid
Hi Jeff, I'm having problems with sysinstall used from a script. (Before you ask, yes I've read the man page and yes I know sysinstall is greatly in need of death but I've not yet found a plausible alternative. I'm all ears if you've got one to suggest.) I had a lot of drama trying to

rc.diskless2 on FreeBSD 6.2

2008-02-18 Thread Andrew Von Cid
Hey, I'm currently setting up a system that runs off a compact flash disk. I'd like to have memory filesystems for /var, /tmp /dev to minimise the amount of writes to the cf. I read an article[1] that recommends the use of /etc/rc.diskless2, however I don't have /etc/rc.diskless2 on 6.3 nor on