Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 05:27:10 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, chaos@rivers.oscs.montana.edu Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Subject: Re: New installation notes Message-ID: <199504011927.FAA18841@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> The whole drive can't be used for BSD if there is a boot manager >> because if the whole drive is used for BSD then there is no space >> left for the boot manager. An MSDOS partition shouldn't be necessary >> and shouldn't be created. Just create a BSD partition starting >> somewhere after the boot manager. >> >How is this done? I'm not sure how to do it with sysinstall. With FreeBSD fdisk, pick a good starting place (the second track on the first cylinder is good) and create a FreeBSD partition as usual. FreeBSD partitions are just partitions with type 165. You can start with a suitably placed foreign partition and change the type (don't go the other way, there may be internal requirements). Bruce
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