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Subject: Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR
From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
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On 12 March 2013, at 18:50, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
>=20
>> 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?
>=20
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=3D149210&postcount=3D13
>=20

Thank you !!!!.  That shows the correct procedure.  I never would have =
guessed that.  It works just fine.  This needs to be included in the =
handbook.=