Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:44:17 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: tundra@tundraware.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk Message-ID: <2FB616F9-6AA7-4BE5-A5A4-01207D34DA9C@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <47D9AA86.2040105@tundraware.com> References: <47D9AA86.2040105@tundraware.com>
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On Mar 13, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > 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 should be a "(W)rite" option on the various pages which let you at least partition the drive without installing the software. > 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. On the other hand, it would be perfectly reasonable to attach a new drive to a working system and run the fdisk and newfs commands by hand from the CLI or sysinstall, if you prefer doing it that way... -- -Chuck
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