w s wrote:
(x posted to http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8827, my
apologies, but no one seems interested there...)
I am trying to follow the steps to install FreeBSD 8.0 on my MacBook.
I don't want to dual boot or anything, so I am following along here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook...15739bad407a8a
(Note that earlier I managed to stomp all over the slices trying to
partition without reading the directions...)
However, it doesn't match my experience exactly, and I don't really
have the FreeBSD background to compensate (long time Linux user, and
never very hardware focused at all), so here are some starting
questions (Note I am in the Fixit shell from the livefs CD):
1. Is gpart the same as gpt?
Almost, gpart is the successor of gpt. the wiki still needs a little
updating, (seems to be part gpt and part gpart based)
2. How can I lose the GPT? When I run # gpart destory ad5 I get
gpart: Device busy. I presume that it is because / is mounted to run
the livefs CD. So ...
Not quite, if you run gpart show you should get a list of stuff on ad5,
so before you can destroy the GPT you have to delete the stuff using
it,a quick example using an md device:
(reminder just in case, this will remove ANY partitions on the disk, but
you already know that :)
[r...@ostracod /scratch]# gpart show md0
= 34 19933 md0 GPT (9.8M)
34 199331 freebsd-ufs (9.7M)
[r...@ostracod /scratch]# gpart destroy md0
gpart: Device busy
[r...@ostracod /scratch]# gpart delete -i 1 md0
md0p1 deleted
[r...@ostracod /scratch]# gpart destroy md0
md0 destroyed
3. Umm, what do I do now
If I run gpart show ad5 I get a bunch of stuff which I would have to
type in manually -- let me know which pieces are important and I will
do it.
Hope that helps, gpart (and GPT) is great once you get used to it but
its got a learning curve.
Vince
TIA!
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