Installing DragonFly

[Colin Adams]

I also tried saving the output from disklabel ad0s1 and just using the
last part of that.
But I get the same error messages. It looks like a bug in disklabel to me.

2009/4/20 Colin Adams <colinpauladams at googlemail.com>:
> Thanks.
>
> I am having problems with the disklabel.
>
> I get:
>
> line 2: partition name out of range a-`: a
>
> and similar for lines 3 - 5
>
> I tried reading the disklabel man page, but could not find anything
> that said where I was going wrong.
>
> P.S. I have a UK keyboard - this is not recognised. I work round it by
> typing SHIFT-3 (£) to produce a #, but I wonder
> if this might be relevant (though I can't think why it should be).
>
> 2009/4/19 Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de>:
>> Am Sonntag, 19. April 2009 14:30:56 schrieben Sie:
>>> But I don't want to install on Hammer. I only have 160GB disk, and
>>> Matt has said you shouldn't consider Hammer on less than 500GB, if I
>>> remember rightly.
>>
>> You don't have to. The instructions are similar for UFS. Replace
>> newfs_hammer with newfs for example and ignore all Hammer related stuff.
>>
>> Take a look at /usr/share/examples/rconfig/auto.sh .
>> It should be available on the installer CD. It's an example how to
>> install DragonFly without the installer using UFS. Of course you need to
>> change "fdisk -IB $disk" into "fdisk -IB -C $disk" in this file.
>>
>> If you have any further questions, please ask.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>  Michael
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2009/4/19 Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de>:
>>> > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:00:21 +0100
>>> >
>>> > Colin Adams <colinpauladams at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> >> 2009/4/18 Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev at dir.bg>:
>>> >> > Colin Adams wrote:
>>> >> >> I don't know if it is the same problem (it certainly sounds
>>> >> >> similar).
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> This is not a laptop though. Nor is it an old machine (less
>>> >> >> than 3 years old).
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Anyway, I have booted DragonFly from the live CD and logged in
>>> >> >> as root.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> But what device name do I use (I only have one disk)?
>>> >> >> Everything I guessed at, it says "device not configured".
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> 2009/4/17 Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de>:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Try ad0 or sd0.
>>> >> > You should look at dmesg(8) output and see what devices the
>>> >> > kernel has recognised (and what names they got).
>>> >>
>>> >> I had already tried ad0.
>>> >>
>>> >> dmesg revealed that the disk hadn't been seen at all. Perhaps I
>>> >> plugged it in too late. Re-booting and re-plugging really early
>>> >> did the trick (it was ad0, which was where the live DVD installed
>>> >> DragonFly yesterday).
>>> >>
>>> >> so fdisk -C ad0 says (slightly abbreviated):
>>> >>
>>> >> cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
>>> >>
>>> >> Media sector size is 512 bytes.
>>> >> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
>>> >> Information form DOS bootblock is:
>>> >> The data for partition 1 is:
>>> >> ssysid 165,(DragonFly/FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>>> >>         start 63, size 312581745 (152627 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>>> >>              beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
>>> >>              end: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63
>>> >> partitions 2 3 and 4 <UNUSED>
>>> >>
>>> >> So where do I go from here?
>>> >
>>> > Basically, follow those instructions below, replacing ad4 with ad0,
>>> > and "fdisk -B -I ad4" with "fdisk -B -I -C ad0". You simply have to
>>> > by-pass the installer, because it doesn't use the "-C" option in
>>> > fdisk, which is essential!
>>> >
>>> > http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/07/30/dragonfly-on-hammer/
>>> >
>>> > The instructions above are a bit outdated, but they should still
>>> > work. You can stop the instructions after "reboot".
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> >  Michael
>>
>> --
>> Rubyist for over a decade
>>
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