From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 9 15:40:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E63106568D for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:40:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 145728FC2A for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (alwinsite.rocketrange.no [128.39.153.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nA9FefoS067687 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:10:44 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:40:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1910684.G1CgGgD51X"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911091640.35419.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "O. Hartmann" Subject: Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:40:48 -0000 --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--