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 the

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 to

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

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 drive to give

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 partition, so /

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 normally create a

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 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 / ad0s3

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 /usr

dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-22 Thread Gary Kline
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. After I hit

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.

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