At 7:59 PM -0700 2/2/10, Steve Franks wrote:
On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a %^# and
read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice
tui.'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk.
I see in the handbook, this is alluded to, but
If you're running into the issue that I think you're running into,
then there is a way to trick sysinstall to do what you want.
When you ask sysinstall to create that first partition, claim that
you are creating the partition named '/'. If you do that, it will
put the partition in as a.
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 03:59:15 Steve Franks wrote:
On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a %^# and
read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice
tui.
sade(8) is the standalone version of sysinstall's partitioning subroutine.
Also, if you're
Just a sidenote to avoid misunderstandings:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:59:15 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote:
'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk.
I think you create a partition, not a slice. The slice
editor would 'C'reate 's1'. :-)
I see in the
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a %^# and
read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice
tui.'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk.
I see in the handbook,
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a %^# and
read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice
tui. 'C'reate slice
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm just trying
to make a fresh disk ready for dump/restore with a 1G /, so I guess
sysinstall is out as an option at this time.
Why so complicated? The command
# newfs /dev/ad1
will prepare the disk,
Why so complicated? The command
# newfs /dev/ad1
I'm looking to mirror/dup/image the entire system to something I can
stick in another system.I hear there's good reasons for not
running my whole system off of a single partition. The 'other' system
has 7.2 and has devolved to a 25%
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:42:42 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote:
Why so complicated? The command
# newfs /dev/ad1
I'm looking to mirror/dup/image the entire system to something I can
stick in another system.
Sorry, my misunderstanding. I thought you're intending
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:37:22PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm just trying
to make a fresh disk ready for dump/restore with a 1G /, so I guess
sysinstall is out as an option at this time.
Why so
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:42:42AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Why so complicated? The command
# newfs /dev/ad1
I'm looking to mirror/dup/image the entire system to something I can
stick in another system.I hear there's good reasons for not
running my whole system off of a
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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700 Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
On a running
On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a %^# and
read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice
tui.'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk.
I see in the handbook, this is alluded to, but some intermediate level
between begginer and
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