> 1st thing:
> Make sure you have removed the NO_GEOM option from your
> kernel config, sysinstall/libdisk only works with GEOM
> kernels.
This was the problem. I think sysinstall should have a graceful way
to detect this and return a complaint to the user rather than return
a
> Ok, first make sure that your machine is running a -current
> kernel.
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Oct 31 01:54:22 EST 2002
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BOATANCHOR
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xfc69a000.
AlphaServer 4100
AlphaServer 1200 5/533 4MB, 531MHz
8
I updated to 5.0-current using the "." tag because I wanted SMP
support for our development AlphaServer 1200 that was otherwise
gathering dust.
I added some new disks and wanted to do a sysinstall to label and
newfs them. So running /usr/sbin/sysinstall built from the sources of
today sysinst
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jon Hamilton wrote:
> } touch big_file
> } chmod 777 big_file
> } chown root:wheel big_file
> } cat /dev/zero >>big_file
> } This joke used to work on HPUX 10.something which kept the
> } owner-may-chown semantics even in presence of quotas. It was not fun
