Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-12 Thread Randi Harper
Please create a PR for any problems you find here or additions to install.cfg that you would like to see, and I'll take a look at it. -- randi On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:        I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found out

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-11 Thread J65nko
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: J65nko writes: IMHO it is easier to to install FreeBSD without using sysinstall at all. See the FreeBSD Install Without Sysinstall guide at http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538        This looks

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-10 Thread Martin McCormick
J65nko writes: IMHO it is easier to to install FreeBSD without using sysinstall at all. See the FreeBSD Install Without Sysinstall guide at http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538 This looks very possible with a couple of changes. Am I right in my reading of the man page of

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-09 Thread J65nko
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:        I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not something you can set in

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-08 Thread Martin McCormick
I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not something you can set in the partition editor or disklabel editor. It is found in the very first menu which

Fw: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas.

2010-02-06 Thread Mark
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mark redt...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Mark redt...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. To: Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 12:17 AM --- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick mar

sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas.

2010-02-05 Thread Martin McCormick
After about a week of trying, I don't think sysinstall will install FreeBSD when used with mfsbsd. I launched mfsbsd from a CDROM and it works fine. I also used dd to feed the mfsboot.img file to the boot sector on the system's hard drive and that also worked fine. mfsbsd doesn't appear

Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas.

2010-02-05 Thread Mark
--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: From: Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu Subject: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:22 PM     After about a week of trying, I don't think

sysinstall and mfs

2010-02-04 Thread Martin McCormick
It appears that the same sysinstall executable that works fine when run from the installation CDROM malfunctions when run from a mfs platform even though it finds the disk it is supposed to install on. One can format the disk manually and mount the partitions under mfs

Re: sysinstall and mfs

2010-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
format the disk manually and mount the partitions under mfs, but sysinstall can't seem to do the installation. This does not make sense, but that is the score right now. I don't understand why you are trying to do your own MFS for this. You need to be booted to the MFS for it to make any

Re: sysinstall and mfs

2010-02-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Jerry McAllister writes: I don't understand why you are trying to do your own MFS for this. You need to be booted to the MFS for it to make any difference and that is what the install image (from the CD) normally does. If you just create an MFS and copy sysinstall to it, it will make