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Subject: Re: Single slice for FreeBSD
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On 12/19/07, James Earl <james@icionline.ca> wrote:
> Here's my vote for just having to just create a single slice for FreeBSD!  :)
>
> I created two partitions using the Mac OS X Disk Utility.  One for Mac
> OS X and the other for FreeBSD.  Booted the 6.2 install cd, allowed
> disklabel to automatically create / swap /var /tmp /usr, and
> continued.  Dies with an error that it's unable to mount /dev/ad0s4.
>
> So if I instead create the partitions using Disk Utility, things will work?
>

I think I may be confusing partitions and slices.  Correct me if I'm
wrong please.  The subject should probably be "Single partition for
FreeBSD"?