From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 20:06:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FB216A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:06:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC68A43D49 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:06:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B175EC63B56 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:06:00 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: 1wPWJkXBfjTt2V3zYLpF2g 1111608358 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-75-117.access.as9105.com [80.41.75.117]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2906E57030B for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:05:57 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:05:57 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050323003314.GA9348@thought.org> <20050323192829.GB15303@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050323192829.GB15303@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503232005.58368.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:06:02 -0000 On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:28, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > If memory servers, the slices I created were > > > ad0s2 / > > > ad0s3 SWAP > > > ad0s4 /usr > > > > People normally create a BSD partition table within an FDISK partition, > > so / would be on ad0s2a, rather than using all of ad0s2 for a single > > filesystem. Then you can put swap on ad0s2b, and so forth and just use > > on FDISK partition, rather than using three... > > How do I use/reach FDISK via the CD installation script? > I've looked at the kwik way and the Custom (for experts). > If I use the "Allocate" menu I see the FDISK editor. > What then? So far I've simply used "C = Create Slice"; > then in the following menu I've labeled the slices. > > Which option in the screen/editor? Or how-to FDISK > ad0s2 any other way? It's part of the normal, menu-driven, installation process; first you create 1 slice (primary partition) then you go through to the next stage where you carve the slice into partition. The second stage is called labelling, and there is a option to lay out the slice automatically. Even if you don't plan to use it you should do that to see what the default looks like.