From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 22:44:22 2008 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 B6D1E1065674 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866838FC1C for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D29D75E1B; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:44:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nHYjEkvLhJeX; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:44:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (unknown [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC7555E05; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:44:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <2FB616F9-6AA7-4BE5-A5A4-01207D34DA9C@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: tundra@tundraware.com In-Reply-To: <47D9AA86.2040105@tundraware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:44:17 -0700 References: <47D9AA86.2040105@tundraware.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk 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: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:44:22 -0000 On Mar 13, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I would like to use the CD install menus to only prepare the hard > disk (Partition, Label, Format) without actually installing anything > on > the drive. Can this be done? There should be a "(W)rite" option on the various pages which let you at least partition the drive without installing the software. > There seems to be no "None" option for > Distributions, and I cannot find the right magic to make the installer > go ahead and prepare the drive w/o resorting to at least a minimal > install. On the other hand, it would be perfectly reasonable to attach a new drive to a working system and run the fdisk and newfs commands by hand from the CLI or sysinstall, if you prefer doing it that way... -- -Chuck