Re: 5.0-RC1 install: disklabel editor
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 03:25:39 +0100 From: Harald Hanche-Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For some reason, I can't find a way to create a swap partition using the disklabel editor - other than by using Auto Defaults - and then I can't see any way to adjust the size of the resulting swap partition. This never was a problem with 4.x as far as I can remember...? (After first discovering this, I figured maybe if I left the pre-existing b partition as none, the install scripts would be smart enough to use it as swap. No way. And after the scripts complained, and I had been back through the disklabel editor again, installation failed with Error mounting /mnt/dev/ad0s3f on /mnt/usr: No such file or directory while the other console said newfs:/mnt/dev/ad0s3f: No such file or directory After which it went ahead and installed anyway, only to fill up the root file system, of course. I don't see any response, but I don't think that this has changes since V4. (But I may be mis-remembering. In any case, in the disklabel screen down-arrow until you get to the partition you want to use as swap. Note the size and press 'D' to delete it. Then up-arrow to the entry at the top of the screen for the slice the swap will be created in. Press 'C', enter the value for the size of the swap space, press enter, and then select Swap. Bingo! You have swap. Also, if you want the partition initialized, don't forget to toggle the newfs tag with 'T'. (And, of course, make sure root is big enough for 5.0.) Fortunately it is not too hard to steal a bit of swap to make root larger. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-RC1 install: disklabel editor
+ Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | In any case, in the disklabel screen down-arrow until you get to the | partition you want to use as swap. Note the size and press 'D' to | delete it. Then up-arrow to the entry at the top of the screen for the | slice the swap will be created in. Press 'C', enter the value for the | size of the swap space, press enter, and then select Swap. Bingo! | You have swap. This fits my memory too, but now after entering the size, I get directly to the question on naming the mount point. Before that, if I remember right, there used to be a question whether I wanted swap or a file system. That question no longer appears. - Harald To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-RC1 install: disklabel editor
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:39:32 +0100 From: Harald Hanche-Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | In any case, in the disklabel screen down-arrow until you get to the | partition you want to use as swap. Note the size and press 'D' to | delete it. Then up-arrow to the entry at the top of the screen for the | slice the swap will be created in. Press 'C', enter the value for the | size of the swap space, press enter, and then select Swap. Bingo! | You have swap. This fits my memory too, but now after entering the size, I get directly to the question on naming the mount point. Before that, if I remember right, there used to be a question whether I wanted swap or a file system. That question no longer appears. Very odd. I am running RC1 and I did exactly what I recommended with no problem. Since I was using the existing space, I just did CEnter and the window offering the Swapfile option appeared. I just tried it again on my RC1 system and it worked as I described. ? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Sysinstall [ was Re: 5.0-RC1 install: disklabel editor ]
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:39:32AM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: + Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | In any case, in the disklabel screen down-arrow until you get to the | partition you want to use as swap. Note the size and press 'D' to | delete it. Then up-arrow to the entry at the top of the screen for the | slice the swap will be created in. Press 'C', enter the value for the | size of the swap space, press enter, and then select Swap. Bingo! | You have swap. This fits my memory too, but now after entering the size, I get directly to the question on naming the mount point. Before that, if I remember right, there used to be a question whether I wanted swap or a file system. That question no longer appears. Yes and yes. With a fresh install I noted you do not get the Q about swap/fs. I noted as well you get swap if you select auto. I noted as well that if the sysinstall happens to find a swap area from a previous area it shows it as such, but will not use it without delete/create. Sysinstall is busted in other areas as well. Select all no-longer puts ticks in the boxes, if you tick each seperately it asks you every time if you want to install the ports, after every tick, and once again at the end. When I tried to configure an X-Server, it took me to the X-Client menu...sysinstall if that is posible has become more than a PITA than it always has been. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
5.0-RC1 install: disklabel editor
For some reason, I can't find a way to create a swap partition using the disklabel editor - other than by using Auto Defaults - and then I can't see any way to adjust the size of the resulting swap partition. This never was a problem with 4.x as far as I can remember...? (After first discovering this, I figured maybe if I left the pre-existing b partition as none, the install scripts would be smart enough to use it as swap. No way. And after the scripts complained, and I had been back through the disklabel editor again, installation failed with Error mounting /mnt/dev/ad0s3f on /mnt/usr: No such file or directory while the other console said newfs:/mnt/dev/ad0s3f: No such file or directory After which it went ahead and installed anyway, only to fill up the root file system, of course. But this problem went away when I tried again after a reboot, so that is a minor issue.) - Harald To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
