From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 01:10:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FC18B5 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:10:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from oceanpt.safeport.com (oceanpt.safeport.com [65.122.17.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926458FC0C for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oceanpt.safeport.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id qA11AMNo032659 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:10:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:10:22 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: help with gpart Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (oceanpt.safeport.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:10:23 -0400 (EDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:10:25 -0000 I am trying to put FreeBSD on an HP laptop. The use up all the partitions to I deleted the least useful one, shrunk the windows partition and tried to add freeBSD. gpart show: => 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 1985 - free - (992k) 2048 407552 1 ntfs [active] (199M) 409600 311951360 2 ntfs (148G) 312360960 33 - free - (16k) 312360993 283115448 4 freebsd (135G) 595476441 577575 - free - (282M) 596054016 28880896 3 ntfs (13G) 624934912 207536 - free - (101M) I do not have any flexibility as to where #4 is. I would like to use the 9.0 installer from this point but it wants to add BSD partitions to the 282M space. I am not sure after much man-ing and google-ing what gpart commands are required. I guess I could use sysinstall at this point but learning gpart seems like a good thing. I assume I need to do something like: gpart add set -a active -i 4 ada04 (not sure geom is correct) gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada04 and then add the mounts. I would like / swap /var 10g /usr 20g /home (the rest) but am somewhat lost about the syntax and geom values. thanks for any help _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277