On 12/2/09, Steven Hartland <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at the release notes it seems FreeBSD 8 now supports booting from > a GPT formatted partition but going through the installer it seems, please > correct me if I'm wrong, that its still no possible to actually install > using a standard disk1 to a clean machine with a large disk? > > I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on previous > versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping there was a nice > easy way on 8.0 given the improvements listed in the release notes. > > Any pointers? > If you have a look at the Root On ZFS tutorial, it shows how to create a GPT formated system from the Fixit environment:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS Note: In step 4 it is using the size in sectors, but you can also use 4G instead of 8388608. Scot _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
