From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 18 13:41:17 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376359DE for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:41:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (wmauth2.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B3DEAF for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:41:16 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) id <0MQ400M00TTADG00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:41:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-2, Version=6.0.3.2322014, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2013.7.18.123018, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (149-67-82-22.static.col.wideopenwest.com [67.149.22.82]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0MQ400C07TWKHQ40@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:41:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <51E7E263.900@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:41:07 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130710 Thunderbird/17.0.7 To: Rostislav Krasny Subject: Re: [bsdinstall] Precise disk slicing References: In-reply-to: Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:41:17 -0000 On 07/18/13 07:26, Rostislav Krasny wrote: > Hi, > > Already asked this on freebsd-questions, but got no response as yet. > > Previously in the sysinstall there was possible to define the start and the > end LBA addresses of the new slice (new MBR partition). I didn't find how > to do that in the bsdinstall. Is it possible? > > Thank you > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sysinstall > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sysinstall-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" There is not exactly, no. You can use the gpart command-line tool with the "Shell" option at the beginning of the install if you want -- bsdinstall will show and use any existing partitions when it runs -- but control on that level is not possible from the usual UI. -Nathan