From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 17 01:17:27 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 4CC9A5F0 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:17:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093138FC14 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-51-39.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.51.39]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533F125531; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:17:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id qBH1HSN8009155; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:17:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:17:28 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Ralf Mardorf Subject: Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again Message-Id: <20121217021728.0a476065.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1355705699.3648.9.camel@q> References: <1355702700.2452.32.camel@q> <1355705699.3648.9.camel@q> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:17:27 -0000 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, ...