Error mounting /dev/ad1s3

[Peter Grehan]

Hi David,

> I went back and tried this. Problem now is that the DiskLabel Editor is 
> not letting me specify the size of the filesystem. I select my slice, 
> type "C" to create. I can choose either "swap" or "file system" but 
> whichever I pick, it automatically uses all available space, leaving 
> nothing for anything else.

  Yep, that's the downside for having to do this.

> I went ahead and created a "/" filesystem (without any swap). "/" was 
> initialized and files were copied from the CD. But then it complained 
> that it couldn't install the ports system; problems also with xorg. 
> Maybe my CD has some problems. I'll try ftp next time.

  I didn't put the ports system onto the RC1 CD. There also aren't any 
pre-built packages, so you'll have to grab the ports tree from 
freebsd.org and built ports manually.

> In any case, it appears that the DiskLabel Editor is misbehaving in 
> several ways.

  Yeh, it needs some work :(

later,

Peter.