From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 1 11:32:43 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA26306 for current-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 11:32:43 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA26292 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 11:32:37 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id FAA18841; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 05:27:10 +1000 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 05:27:10 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199504011927.FAA18841@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, chaos@rivers.oscs.montana.edu Subject: Re: New installation notes Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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