Subject: Re: Mkfs 1.45 problems
To: Bob Nestor , Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/01/1998 17:30:20
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Bob Nestor wrote:
> > Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >We need to make this VERY CLEAR. Filesystems made by newfs are not
> > >compatable with the installer. They're close, but not quite.
> > 
> > I know the BSD 4.4 filesystem created by default in newfs is not 
> > compatible with the Installer, but I thought the one created with "newfs 
> > -O" was.  I could swear that's how I installed my last system and it's 
> > still up and running.  Have I been saved by dumb luck and intense 
> > stupidity?  ;-)
> 
> I think you're right, Bob.  I assume that Bill meant "by newfs using the
> defaults"....

Right. You have to use "-O" to get something which works 100% w/ the
installer.

My current root was formatted that way, and it's peachy-keen.

Take care,

Bill