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#! rnews 2174 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!ais.net!noc.van.hookup.net!nic.mtl.hookup.net!vertex.tor.hookup.net!nic.wat.hookup.net!xenitec!news.uunet.ca!not-for-mail From: Mike Kerr <mkerr@kerris.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: sysinstall Won't Let Me Partition wd1 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:32:18 -0500 Organization: Kerr Information Systems Lines: 35 Message-ID: <32E84962.D79@kerris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: incubus.uunet.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34047 This is driving me nuts. After a few good suggestions, I followed popular advice and used sysinstall to create the partitions. The following is the label screen: Disk: wd0 Partition name: wd0s2 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) Disk: wd1 Partition name: wd1s1 Free: 253825 blocks (123MB) Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- wd0s1 <none> 34MB DOS wd1s1e /u 50MB UFS Y wd0s2a <none> 32MB * wd1s1f /www 70MB UFS Y wd0s2b <none> 27MB SWAP wd0s2e <none> 30MB * wd0s2f <none> 80MB * wd0s2a mounts to / wd0s2e mounts to /var wd0s2f mounts to /usr I have tried (M)ounting the above partitions on wd0 so that the new partitions look for something, but have been unsuccessful (it can't mount the root system because it's busy and then aborts). If I try (W)riting the changes as they are shown above WITHOUT the mounts for wd0, then sysinstall complains that I need a / filesystem on wd1. Other people have obviously been able to do this, so if you are one such person, I would REALLY value hearing from you. I've also tried command-line methods for creating the labels (from Joerg's earlier email to someone else) but it gives me errors and won't do anything. Mike.