On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700, Steve Franks <bahamasfra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm just trying > to make a fresh disk ready for dump/restore with a 1G /, so I guess > sysinstall is out as an option at this time.
Why so complicated? The command # newfs /dev/ad1 will prepare the disk, assuming ad1 is the new disk. It will create one single partition covering the whole disk, with no slice. You can then run # mount /dev/ad1 /mnt to access it; /dev/ad1 is the same as /dev/ad1c, "the whole disk". By the way, have you tried the program # sade instead of sysinstall? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"