Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:02:16 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Cc: Dmitry Suhodoev <raven@bingo.chel.ru>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating ad2s1a Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020915120003.05e01890@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <20020915154924.GB1136@iv.nn.kiev.ua> References: <3920151836.20020915165112@bingo.chel.ru> <3920151836.20020915165112@bingo.chel.ru>
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At 06:49 PM 9/15/2002 +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 16:51:12, raven (Dmitry Suhodoev) wrote about
> "creating ad2s1a":
>
>DS> i
>DS> has try make new partition (as on old hdd) with /stand/sysinstall. but the
>DS> slice list begins from ad2s1e, and i can't create slices as on old hdd:
>
>This is sysinstall's bug-feature - it can't create 'a' partition (which
>you incorrectly call "slice") on non-root slice.
Another work around is to specify it as the mount point /, and then hit the
m to edit the mount point back to something else. sysinstall will leave it
as the a partition.
---Mike
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