Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:01:50 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Different sysinstall labelling behaviour when run post-install vs. during install? Message-ID: <000301c475d0$cf1ce040$132a15ac@spud>
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Yesterday I was upgrading the disk in one of my workstations. Since I = was planning on growing the filesystems for my FreeBSD install at the same = time, I needed to manually create a new disklabel. I used sysinstall for = this, but ran into a problem: sysinstall doesn't allocate the partition = letters, with 'a' first, if you aren't doing an initial install. I ended up = using the "auto defaults" option to create the 'a' partition, then remove everything and create them as I wanted. I'm glad to say that it worked = out just fine, but this problem raises a couple of questions: Why does sysinstall behave differently when run post-install? How do I manually specify or change the partition letter to use?
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