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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Subject: Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:

> 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?

http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210&postcount=13