From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 22:28:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FEF106566C for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:28:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268E28FC1E for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:28:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2DMSOBn031825 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:28:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <47D9AA86.2040105@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:28:22 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:28:30 -0000 I would like to use the CD install menus to only prepare the hard disk (Partition, Label, Format) without actually installing anything on the drive. Can this be done? There seems to be no "None" option for Distributions, and I cannot find the right magic to make the installer go ahead and prepare the drive w/o resorting to at least a minimal install. I assume if the answer is "no" then that means this has to be done manually from the fixit command line???? Thanks, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/