From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 3 01:18:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C4D1065670 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:18:25 +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 D7D5D8FC12 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:18:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au ([203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nB31IKWF041788 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:48:21 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:47:49 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5409195.1im0QjBo5H"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912031148.09603.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Steven Hartland Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8 GPT install, how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:18:25 -0000 --nextPart5409195.1im0QjBo5H Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Steven Hartland wrote: > Looking at the release notes it seems FreeBSD 8 now supports booting > from a GPT formatted partition but going through the installer it > seems, please correct me if I'm wrong, that its still no possible to > actually install using a standard disk1 to a clean machine with a > large disk? > > I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on > previous versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping > there was a nice easy way on 8.0 given the improvements listed in the > release notes. Unfortunately not, although work is in progress on teaching sysinstall=20 about gpart. =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 --nextPart5409195.1im0QjBo5H 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) iD8DBQBLFxHR5ZPcIHs/zowRAgZbAJ99sjNuWNodLDVECVYb3n8ONfiYFgCfSyms khtO0XTHPJqI1Da7FNFdui8= =cg70 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5409195.1im0QjBo5H--