From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 17 02:03:16 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 25D3335E for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:03:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm4-vm0.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (nm4-vm0.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.183.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9214F8FC15 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.146.183.181] by nm4.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 02:00:06 -0000 Received: from [77.238.184.58] by tm12.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 02:00:06 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp127.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 02:00:06 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1355709606; bh=3N1cJSHQxx0fS5Iy5hvYK/gb+Bbgx5Pm5m/diNpoDkE=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=4AbSH0IXnR2s2ximfwUkVDYxrSuyyDo1GtZgo4QZcPXSzqL2L/vRrMCn5qxHH+Dic18xU/bvtQhhXHx4x0+EMNQTiVfHkpScOG7NHv1khJJPG0Vp38BfEkZq1aqGB7Q8Ery4kOkJL6svPV7DW293g7h+t6dJat4Ltz3/KJha9/s= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 952188.38534.bm@smtp127.mail.ukl.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: hSF5THkVM1kegkSylbO8TSMHXGgyhgmI5BBSZuzcwPzUlIM gS2SB6PeSD6SFo6OhNPFxNtIkgCLPoHCXURZG0UoEzSZl3YH5dMyZsohloWG pNwwuNg2mZViu6k2QbSNxYSl9XwrUK32hTeM6.yq_3cdApcnk2erAjb7Dsx. 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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