From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 13 01:36:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D647E3 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:36:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [108.92.93.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4E97D3 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (static-71-177-216-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.177.216.148]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r2D1aFIa087578 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) From: Doug Hardie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Using bsdinstall to create MBR Message-Id: <9EA95DBE-04D0-4AAE-9ED8-BCDAFD6AEF55@lafn.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:15 -0700 To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:36:24 -0000 I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can = set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in = slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything = I have tried gives an error message. I wanted one for / and one for = swap. How do I create the two slices?