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Subject: Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot
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> No offense, but when installing from scratch using sysinstall, do you
> actually have a command line available in that phase of the install?
>
> If I'm not mistaken, you don't get the "emergency holographic shell"
> until you commit, at which point disk partitioning has already been
> done.

you have to choose rescue disk from menu and CD/DVD.


actually - i don't use sysinstall at all. it's easier to boot livecd, and 
bsdlabel+newfs+mount+decompress files+bsdlabel -B+edit fstab manually

at least for me