> If you're running into the issue that I think you're running into, > then there is a way to trick sysinstall to do what you want. > > When you ask sysinstall to create that first partition, claim that > you are creating the partition named '/'. If you do that, it will > put the partition in as "a". You couldn't actually partition it as > '/', of course, because that would conflict with '/' on your > running system. But sysinstall will let you say you want to create > '/', and then use "a" for that partition. > > Then select that "a" partition, and tell sysinstall you want to > change the name for that partition. Change it to whatever you > want. At that point sysinstall can't change the partition from "a" > to "d", so you'll have the mount-point that you really want as the > "a" partition.
I really should have thought of that! So you create it as "/", and then hit 'M' and change the mount point to, say, /mnt/root... Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ 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"