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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sysinstall installs on wrong device Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:36:46 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3247574E.237C228A@FreeBSD.org> References: <5271bp$ii@news.jb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Michelle Brownsworth <michellb@ordata.com> Michelle Brownsworth wrote: > to be kosher, until the actual Commit. To my horror, I noted that there was no activity light on the > JAZ, but the hard drive--sd0--was whirling away like crazy. I thought to myself, "There's no way > that sysinstall could be installing files on sd0--it couldn't be THAT brain-dead." "Interesting..." :-) I will try to reproduce this, but it sounds very strange indeed. I'm not even sure how it could happen. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project