On 14.07.2010 1:26, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> I usually just start a fixit shell from the DVD, run bsdlabel
> directly on the target device, newfs it, and unpack the distributions
> myself...
I think better suggestion will be use gpart(8) instead of fdisk/bsdlabel.
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Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2010-07-13 23:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >> Were those partitions 'dangerously dedicated'
> >
> > Yes probably, I can't be certain though, as recent FreeBSD fudges /aliases
> > ad0s1a to ad0a if s1 is active fdisk slice.
>
> IIRC, in FreeBSD before 8 you got both ad0
On 2010-07-13 23:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>> Were those partitions 'dangerously dedicated'
>
> Yes probably, I can't be certain though, as recent FreeBSD fudges /aliases
> ad0s1a to ad0a if s1 is active fdisk slice.
IIRC, in FreeBSD before 8 you got both ad0s1a and ad0a in /dev, when you
had D
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Dimitry Andric
> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 +0200
> Message-id: <4c3caa05.6080...@andric.com>
Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2010-07-13 19:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso
> > sysinstall failed to correctly repa
On 2010-07-13 19:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso
> sysinstall failed to correctly repartition a previously partitioned disc.
> fdisk however correctly wrote the new slices to the disk,
> but sysinstall did not pick up the new slices, so we had to enter fixit
Hi stable@,
with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso
sysinstall failed to correctly repartition a previously partitioned disc.
fdisk however correctly wrote the new slices to the disk,
but sysinstall did not pick up the new slices, so we had to enter fixit
& overwrite beginning of disk with
