Sysintsall should work fine .. cand you send the output of 'fdisk /dev/ad2' and 'bsdlabel /dev/ad2'.
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:27:56PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi ! > > Ok, I'm at a point where I'm ready to cry :( > Is there ANY easy way to partition/slice a hardrive for FreeBSD ????? > I spent all morning playing with bsdlabel, sysinstall... I just want to > partition a second hardrive so I could dump/restore the content of my first > drive. > So, I tried sysinstall post-install tools to create the slices and all, but > all I get are errors like "can't write to ad2", or "can't mount /dev/ad2s1a > on /mnt" .... > Basically what I want is: > ad2s1a --> /mnt > ad2s1b --> SWAP > ad2s1d --> /mnt/tmp > ad2s1e --> /mnt/var > ad2s1f --> /mnt/usr > > So, all I have to do after is dump / --> /mnt, /tmp --> /mnt/tmp ... and so > on. > I sware I tried all morning without any kind of success :( > > I would really appreciate some help. > > Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"