From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 11:26:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2286BFDF for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:26:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm23-vm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (nm23-vm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.176.151]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7388FC0C for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.146.183.216] by nm23.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 11:26:14 -0000 Received: from [77.238.184.60] by tm9.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 11:26:14 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp129.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 11:26:14 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1353842774; bh=HlBcu5sqY8ZcJkOuqlnn7IwUJccjfJM07rHXlAqz1v8=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=dq5eMGp/t1KjCpzxaVP+s6JmdE+mmzmlldbXEds5FmuXEMzE64/XvE0x7vu1r9mCgqr7a+kz6a/9N23tyzQ76tcvP035RSePmQ5XDKclggZjOis0H4RUZMBNH5If8Bqsk26c0jg+/XuGd2DD1QoFqkdAcfbW9IkYh6WKJfntA0o= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 61104.12556.bm@smtp129.mail.ukl.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: p0YV1zwVM1mpcgjzmIE0m.Hajrg6xQSAb6wdw0ad3BCj_bf l_E.7hvRojsLwf97SMSyZVqACQkFxmLNKsFv6va6d2mdMVDbuI050d.U7ODm IsA6g9fPrdCQDPCVfGXj5Yv8lOAzXDY.ekXMgwMc2K91vI0fhhJRjqJWqR7t KM_kLmM1_cYK2nEKwhHoIRY4RAQxnokUAy.G8XyLAPVVlPJhyPEkbS_y_XWD IoyqCHx.C8gIWE8MxxGoWEqIsZRWHfLO_TF.XufRER3yt6pZA5o44RlouSAQ LMpGVNWkvmni2irWzREPcZyC4WI.zHv19OW00MR5CEOky.A.FNM0O9Mfto3S 2cu_6uanGbgqOXqxZlFuW8v5nZAuxqu9hM1u_UXdE7bDukyvh8PEHo9Pt_be 13ayksJwaoA_Maxijox8nspDrxK4gtEWse_LzlIE- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [85.182.22.141] (ralf.mardorf@85.182.22.141 with login) by smtp129.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2012 11:26:13 +0000 GMT Message-ID: <1353842774.2508.18.camel@q> Subject: Manually partitioning using gpart From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:26:14 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:26:22 -0000 This is what I've got: # gpart show ada0 => 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683 - free - (57G) [snip] IIUC I now have to do: # gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0 # gpart add -s 8G -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ada0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 256k -l root0 ada0 Here I already don't understand how large the swap should be. Really 2 * size of the RAM? I also don't know if 256k is a sane alignment value, I just copied this from a howto. How to continue after this is done? I want to use GRUB from my Linux installs, this is the Linux menu.lst: timeout 8 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title FreeBSD 9.0 root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader [snip] Regards, Ralf