Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:00:05 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again Message-ID: <1355709605.4691.16.camel@q> In-Reply-To: <20121217021728.0a476065.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1355702700.2452.32.camel@q> <1355705699.3648.9.camel@q> <20121217021728.0a476065.freebsd@edvax.de>
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... On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Screenshots from Linux's GParted: > > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php > > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php > > Judging from the screenshots, /dev/sda1 = /dev/ad0s1, a > "DOS primary partition", should be fine for installing > FreeBSD into. PC-BSD could use it. > > Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install > > FreeBSD on /dev/sda1. > > In case the 1st slice is already of sysid 165 (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD), > the installer (NB: I'm talking about ye olde sysinstall -- no idea > what new bsdinstall will do!) should be able to identify previous > partitions that have been created in this slice. You can re-use > them, you just have to define the mount points. Maybe it's also > a good idea (but not strictly needed) to have the installer > format them (newfs = yes). > > You can check with "fdisk ad0" from a FreeBSD live system (or > the shell from the installation media). Ok. > > I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /, /usr, /var, as it was for > > PC-BSD is ok too. I've got 4 GB RAM, the swap I had before, was 8 GB > > large. > > No problem with this functional separation. This would also default > to have /home symlinked to /usr/home, making it part of the /usr > partition, if that's okay for you. Also /tmp will be on the / > partition (except you use tmpfs or a similar means to put /tmp > into RAM). > > If the installer cannot create the partitions (for whatever reason > that may be), you can relapse to using the CLI tool disklabel > (bsdlabel) to create the partitions. > > If you don't want to work in this "old-fashioned manner", using > gpart is also possible. It supports both old MBR style (what seems > to be in use on your current installation) and new GPT style > (to get rid of the "DOS primary partitions", "DOS extended partitions", > and "logical volumes inside a DOS extended partition"). gpart didn't work. However, I'll try sysinstall or http://www.manpages.info/freebsd/disklabel.8.html ... hm? ... I'm not sure, if I already tried bsdlabel. Regards, Ralf
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