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#! rnews 1880 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news02.magna.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!shore!news From: "Jonathan R. Langdale" <langdale@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: install pmax prob Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 07:23:07 -0500 Organization: http://www.tiac.net/users/langdale Lines: 25 Message-ID: <338AD22B.34BD@tiac.net> Reply-To: langdale@tiac.net NNTP-Posting-Host: langdale.shore.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:107 I have got openbsd to bootup simpleroot with >>boot 3/rz3/bsd and I still have my orig ultrix os on rz2 during the install I would like to partion my rz2 and install all the distro sets onto this drive ./install asks me which drive is root device? and I choose rz3 because thats the simpleroot then it asks if I am using simpleroot dd disk to boot and if I want to install to this disk and I think I want to say no and then it asks what device to install root to and I pick rz2 but then I have to edit disklabel which I have tried based on a sample file included w/disklabel program for ultrix that came with NETbsd and then I continue and it still says I need a disk label and in the disklabel file I label: BSD? but it still says no disklabel so I continue and setup network then I choose to install distro sets via ftp I enter my ftp info and I try to continue and it tries to setup filesystems but has problems mounting /dev/rz2a?? What am I doing wrong? If I choose to install to simpleroot disk then I run out of disk space