Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:40:29 +0100 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk? Message-ID: <200911091640.35419.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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--nextPart1910684.G1CgGgD51X Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline [ -current CC dropped ] On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: > I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on a > barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now > done via gpart and the limitation of having only 8 (-2) partitions > from a through h except b and c is now obsoleted. When dropping into > the installation process, I realised that the 8 partition boundary is > still present. > Is there a howto (I searched the wiki and lists without success)? I > read a lot about how to install FreeBSD on op of a complete ZFS > infrastructure, but key issue seems to be a hands-on partitioning of > the target haddrive via the fixit procedure. sysinstall does not [yet] do GPT partitions, I believe someone is=20 working on patches but I have no idea what state they are in. Also, I didn't think that bsdlabel was limited to 8 partitions, however=20 I'm not certain. BTW gpart does many partition types not just MBR and GPT. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1910684.G1CgGgD51X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBK+Dfz5ZPcIHs/zowRApZXAKCUTmCz4NR3F0ZTKt8KwMKtIx3B5wCgqO41 r0lv40eUAKIZI4Jsz44ZmH0= =FEuk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1910684.G1CgGgD51X--
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