On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:05:57PM +0000, RW wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:28, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote:
> > > On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > If memory servers, the slices I created were
> > > > ad0s2 /
> > > > ad0s3 SWAP
> > > > ad0s4 /usr
> > >
> > > People normally create a BSD partition table within an FDISK partition,
> > > so / would be on ad0s2a, rather than using all of ad0s2 for a single
> > > filesystem. Then you can put swap on ad0s2b, and so forth and just use
> > > on FDISK partition, rather than using three...
> >
> > How do I use/reach FDISK via the CD installation script?
> > I've looked at the kwik way and the Custom (for experts).
> > If I use the "Allocate" menu I see the FDISK editor.
> > What then? So far I've simply used "C = Create Slice";
> > then in the following menu I've labeled the slices.
> >
> > Which option in the screen/editor? Or how-to FDISK
> > ad0s2 any other way?
>
> It's part of the normal, menu-driven, installation process; first you create
> 1
> slice (primary partition) then you go through to the next stage where you
> carve the slice into partition. The second stage is called labelling, and
> there is a option to lay out the slice automatically. Even if you don't plan
> to use it you should do that to see what the default looks like.
Yeah, I wound up trying the defaults because my custom creates
failed. With thr "auto defaults" newfs works, but I error out
on /usr. /usr is large. So the mount will fail, etc. (??)
Maybe a smaller /usr is the trick.
gary
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