Must root be on slice 'a'?

2003-12-23 Thread Leif Neland
http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/freebsd.htm writes this:To install a new FreeBSD system, you must create a new '/' file system at a minimum. If you do this in a slice with an existing '/' partition the previous system will become inaccessible. You can normally tell that there is a previous

Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?

2003-12-23 Thread Leif Neland
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: On Monday 22 December 2003 17:27, Leif Neland wrote: Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't boot from /dev/ad1s3e ? Right. Root always must be label a. You don't have to change slices. But you can compile something

Re: binaries newsgroup downloader

2003-12-29 Thread Leif Neland
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 9:59 AM Subject: binaries newsgroup downloader Hi, I am using freeBSD 5.1 I'm am looking for a newgroup binary downloader. The glitter port package says broken link when i type

Re: SCSI to IDE device bridges

2004-01-07 Thread Leif Neland
- Original Message - From: Derek Marcotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:39 PM Subject: SCSI to IDE device bridges Hello, I've checked the H/W compatibiltity list for 4.9 for any SCSI to IDE bridges (IDE drive to SCSI bus), and I