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 wrote: >        I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found > out my problem with getting

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 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 very possible

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 pa

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 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 the partition editor or

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 oddly

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

2010-02-06 Thread Mark
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mark wrote: > From: Mark > Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. > To: "Martin McCormick" > Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 12:17 AM > > > --- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick > wrote: > > > From: Martin Mc

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

2010-02-05 Thread Mark
--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick wrote: > From: Martin McCormick > 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 >

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 to

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 no >

Re: sysinstall and mfs

2010-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:31:33PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > 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 c

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, but sysinst