From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 21:28:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E16110656C3 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:28:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f202.google.com (mail-pz0-f202.google.com [209.85.222.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D118FC23 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk40 with SMTP id 40so8935289pzk.7 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:28:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1j0SHc4h9OqYUHYUjjwFOTnjtZ2TYxmBet08BaCzRC8=; b=HOT0c80axAwEbiGB/QJpjg1+JWCYlp06svVkR353j4EYbUwWpGsXbI1Zj5IlU/Nhhi 9pL/Gnz03CWbAJ4dlcnZ4e1O/hUkpkE/4qZHfbtzbdydiCGVYypyi1CBHi4fbDdUIaI+ 6dRxYbepqbJYRwqk5Ou1NL4Pe+7Xkb4xtHDtY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AGbr811xnyY2frGrpRppTxic7f22WBB8+WG+xZgqUezNtoHJfUrOmWjZsIR4ubBLlh akL6eZknRkJOIEnJGK6twQHl2w7EE/RPmynObsbMSbIyLxQIzbdO03/jcm1m6Ureecv7 +DbkKGfAhrU4QK7+OxzYkeC5rtT4hQ4sEEMZU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.3.33 with SMTP id 33mr2269247wfc.275.1265750931914; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:28:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <539c60b91002021859h6761ef1fk244d69000e089c65@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:28:51 -0700 Message-ID: <539c60b91002091328k74f497f6p825f2217c19b2e89@mail.gmail.com> From: Steve Franks To: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:28:53 -0000 > If you're running into the issue that I think you're running into, > then there is a way to trick sysinstall to do what you want. > > When you ask sysinstall to create that first partition, claim that > you are creating the partition named '/'. =A0If you do that, it will > put the partition in as "a". =A0You couldn't actually partition it as > '/', of course, because that would conflict with '/' on your > running system. =A0But sysinstall will let you say you want to create > '/', and then use "a" for that partition. > > Then select that "a" partition, and tell sysinstall you want to > change the name for that partition. =A0Change it to whatever you > want. =A0At that point sysinstall can't change the partition from "a" > to "d", so you'll have the mount-point that you really want as the > "a" partition. I really should have thought of that! So you create it as "/", and then hit 'M' and change the mount point to, say, /mnt/root... Thanks, Steve