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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:21:30 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "Xi.Liu" <Xi.Liu@Leitch.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can not create slice on a SATA drive
Message-ID:  <20050215182130.GA85174@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <F5DF799F740CD611802200034722783C02549716@pelican.mars.leitch.com>
References:  <F5DF799F740CD611802200034722783C02549716@pelican.mars.leitch.com>

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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:09:48PM -0500, Xi.Liu wrote:
> Still not very sure, .... (I am new using FreeBSD).
[ PLEASE don't top-post, it looses context. ]


> I guess even I boot singel user, the disk will still be  mounted as /. 

Correct.  / will be mount read-only.

> Do I have to boot from a bootable-CD (say the installation CD)?

Nope, you can use /usr/sbin/sysinstall.
But you'll have to mount /usr (but do it read-only!) first if you didn't
combine / + /usr into a single partition.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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