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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