Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:25:58 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@forestry.umn.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trouble installing onto two drives Message-ID: <20020202112558.GC10519@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <1012591306.1492.12.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> References: <1012591306.1492.12.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:21:46PM -0600, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the assistance with userconfig. Now I am stuck
> trying to get both scsi discs partitioned (sliced). When I'm at the
> screen to select which disc to do the install on I can select disc 0,
> partition it the way I want, mark it bootable, but then I can't figure
> out how to go back and select disc 1, so that I can partition it and put
> a second swap slice and /home on it.
>
> FDisk seems to want to only deal with one disc at a time. I think the
> problem is that FDisk is not returning to the "select drives" screen
> after I slice up and name mount points of the first drive.
You're talking about the disk label editor screen, right ?
If you select both drives, you get something like this, and you can use
the arrow keys to select the drive at the top :
FreeBSD Disklabel Editor
Disk: ad4 Partition name: ad4s2 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Disk: ad4 Partition name: ad4s4 Free: 34459425 blocks (16825MB)
Disk: ad6 Partition name: ad6s2 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs
---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----
ad4s2a <none> 256MB * ad4s2d <none> 1017MB *
ad4s2b swap 512MB SWAP ad4s3 <none> 3074MB DOS
ad4s2e <none> 1300MB * ad6s1 <none> 17476MB DOS
ad4s2f <none> 2048MB * ad6s2b swap 512MB SWAP
ad4s2g <none> 1536MB * ad6s2e <none> 1259MB *
ad4s2h <none> 5120MB * ad6s2f <none> 268MB *
Ceri
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