From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 21:05:07 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 E586416A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:05:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB5743D2D for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2NL5Cgi016277; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:05:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j2NL5CoI016276; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:05:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:05:12 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: RW Message-ID: <20050323210512.GA16169@thought.org> References: <20050323003314.GA9348@thought.org> <20050323192829.GB15303@thought.org> <200503232005.58368.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503232005.58368.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:05:08 -0000 On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:05:57PM +0000, RW wrote: > 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. Yeah, I wound up trying the defaults because my custom creates failed. With thr "auto defaults" newfs works, but I error out on /usr. /usr is large. So the mount will fail, etc. (??) Maybe a smaller /usr is the trick. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix