Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:47:49 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8 GPT install, how? Message-ID: <200912031148.09603.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <AB1C873C57E446B29135C09133000047@multiplay.co.uk> References: <AB1C873C57E446B29135C09133000047@multiplay.co.uk>
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--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--
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