Installing DragonFly

[Colin Adams]

Anyway, I ignored the possibility that it wasn't working, and
proceeded with the instructions.

And when I tried re-booting, from the disk drive, it worked!

At least, it almost worked. I have a dragonfly system, but it's not
quire right. (I think I edited /etc/fstab in the wrong place - I
forgot to put /mnt in front of the path).

Hopefully I can correct that on my own without further help.

Thanks for all your help.

2009/4/20 Colin Adams <colinpauladams at googlemail.com>:
> If I add an extra initial line:
>
> 4 partitions:
>
> Then I no longer get the error message.
> But it does say sector size 0, and just typing:
>
> disklabel ad0s1
>
> shows the same information as before.
>
> 2009/4/20 Colin Adams <colinpauladams at googlemail.com>:
>> 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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