PS: Partitioning - please not that again
Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install FreeBSD on /dev/sda1. I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /, /usr, /var, as it was for PC-BSD is ok too. I've got 4 GB RAM, the swap I had before, was 8 GB large. Regards, Ralf ___ 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
Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Judging from the screenshots, /dev/sda1 = /dev/ad0s1, a DOS primary partition, should be fine for installing FreeBSD into. Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install FreeBSD on /dev/sda1. In case the 1st slice is already of sysid 165 (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD), the installer (NB: I'm talking about ye olde sysinstall -- no idea what new bsdinstall will do!) should be able to identify previous partitions that have been created in this slice. You can re-use them, you just have to define the mount points. Maybe it's also a good idea (but not strictly needed) to have the installer format them (newfs = yes). You can check with fdisk ad0 from a FreeBSD live system (or the shell from the installation media). I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /, /usr, /var, as it was for PC-BSD is ok too. I've got 4 GB RAM, the swap I had before, was 8 GB large. No problem with this functional separation. This would also default to have /home symlinked to /usr/home, making it part of the /usr partition, if that's okay for you. Also /tmp will be on the / partition (except you use tmpfs or a similar means to put /tmp into RAM). If the installer cannot create the partitions (for whatever reason that may be), you can relapse to using the CLI tool disklabel (bsdlabel) to create the partitions. If you don't want to work in this old-fashioned manner, using gpart is also possible. It supports both old MBR style (what seems to be in use on your current installation) and new GPT style (to get rid of the DOS primary partitions, DOS extended partitions, and logical volumes inside a DOS extended partition). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again
... On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Judging from the screenshots, /dev/sda1 = /dev/ad0s1, a DOS primary partition, should be fine for installing FreeBSD into. PC-BSD could use it. Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install FreeBSD on /dev/sda1. In case the 1st slice is already of sysid 165 (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD), the installer (NB: I'm talking about ye olde sysinstall -- no idea what new bsdinstall will do!) should be able to identify previous partitions that have been created in this slice. You can re-use them, you just have to define the mount points. Maybe it's also a good idea (but not strictly needed) to have the installer format them (newfs = yes). You can check with fdisk ad0 from a FreeBSD live system (or the shell from the installation media). Ok. I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /, /usr, /var, as it was for PC-BSD is ok too. I've got 4 GB RAM, the swap I had before, was 8 GB large. No problem with this functional separation. This would also default to have /home symlinked to /usr/home, making it part of the /usr partition, if that's okay for you. Also /tmp will be on the / partition (except you use tmpfs or a similar means to put /tmp into RAM). If the installer cannot create the partitions (for whatever reason that may be), you can relapse to using the CLI tool disklabel (bsdlabel) to create the partitions. If you don't want to work in this old-fashioned manner, using gpart is also possible. It supports both old MBR style (what seems to be in use on your current installation) and new GPT style (to get rid of the DOS primary partitions, DOS extended partitions, and logical volumes inside a DOS extended partition). gpart didn't work. However, I'll try sysinstall or http://www.manpages.info/freebsd/disklabel.8.html ... hm? ... I'm not sure, if I already tried bsdlabel. Regards, Ralf ___ 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
Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install FreeBSD on /dev/sda1. I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /, /usr, /var, as it was for PC-BSD is ok too. I've got 4 GB RAM, the swap I had before, was 8 GB large. Like this? http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210postcount=13 ___ 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
