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[Graham J Lee]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday 06 November 2005 06:14 pm, Peter Grehan wrote:
> 
>>
>>  I think once the 'auto' option was selected, it isn't possible to roll
>>back to using partitions underneath those slices. I even suspect the
>>same would happen on i386.
> 
> 
> No, it isn't.  I often do an auto to see what it sets, then delete the 
> selections, bump up /'s size for a test machine (lots of kernels) and then 
> use auto again to setup the other partitions.  I've done this for amd64 and 
> sparc64 recently and it worked fine.  sysinstall tries to invoke swapon on 
> swap partitions after it newfs's everything and it seems that swapon() is 
> failing, probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open 
> still.  Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe?
> 
Actually, Peter's suggestion to just go ahead and use my custom scheme 
worked.  I've never had the failure he described on x86 though - I 
always proceed by selecting the auto options then tweaking to suit.  But 
it's now unpacking base (into my monolithic / slice :-)), I'll post a 
dmesg to my website when I get the installation done.

Cheers,

Graham.

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Graham Lee
UNIX Systems Manager,
Oxford Physics Practical Course
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