Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything I have tried gives an error message. I wanted one for / and one for swap. How do I create the two slices? In what step of 2.7.2 (Manual Partitioning) do you experience problems? Can you provide the text of the error message? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html This chapter covers GPT and MBR partitioning with the new bsdinstall program. If you don't have success using the installer, just try to use the command line's default tools. With gpart you can create GPT and MBR partitioning, but you can also use the old-fashioned tools like fdisk and disklabel / bsdlabel. You should be able to access them via the shell. -- 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: Using bsdinstall to create MBR
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything I have tried gives an error message. I wanted one for / and one for swap. How do I create the two slices? 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
Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR
Hi, On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:15 -0700 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything I have tried gives an error message. I wanted one for / and one for swap. How do I create the two slices? I would recommend gpart. You can find out more here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html Erich ___ 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 ___ 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: Using bsdinstall to create MBR
On 12 March 2013, at 18:50, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything I have tried gives an error message. I wanted one for / and one for swap. How do I create the two slices? http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210postcount=13 Thank you . That shows the correct procedure. I never would have guessed that. It works just fine. This needs to be included in the handbook. ___ 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
