Re: More sysinstall questions 1 of 2

2010-02-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Polytropon writes: This seems to be obvious because no changes have been made to the disk (i. e. no slicing, no MBRin, no partitioning). The CDROM for installing FreeBSD correctly formats the drive and installs the OS on that very same box. My first question is why doesn't the mfs

More sysinstall questions 1 of 2

2010-02-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Yesterday, I asked how sysinstall mounts the drive on which FreeBSD is to install. I might not have been clear enough so I will try again since my question may have been confusing. The system is booting via mfs so we are starting out with a virtual disk drive made of memory. The

Re: More sysinstall questions 1 of 2

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:01:52 -0600, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: The commit does not format the disk. There is no last chance prompt. It goes right to the download and proceeds to install FreeBSD all over mfs. This seems to be obvious because no changes have been