From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Sep 27 13:54:05 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2659D0252 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:54:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE9F278D for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:54:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-125-111.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.125.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD15B24CB8; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:53:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id t8RDrsNC002028; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:53:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:53:54 +0200 From: Polytropon To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! Subject: Re: dd question Message-Id: <20150927155354.7dab526a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5607E84D.1050803@hiwaay.net> References: <5606A4FF.4090105@hiwaay.net> <56073915.6030707@hiwaay.net> <20150927131036.c6b2d9ce.freebsd@edvax.de> <5607E84D.1050803@hiwaay.net> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:54:06 -0000 On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:05:27 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > *Booooyah* !!!! That is almost exactly what I did, minus the > 'conv=sync', & it worked AOK. I noticed that the dd-ed image had no slices: > > [...] > > i.e. no da0s1, is that necessary to use the drive for install ? This approach is called "dedicated", i. e. no slices, but the device is partitioned (even though when you only find one partition that covers the whole device: 'a' indicates a bootable partition, 'c' refers to the whole device). Slices ("MS-DOS primary partitions") are optional and have primarily been "invented" to conform to the concepts of the PC, when FreeBSD (or UNIX in general) arrived at that time. Today, we tend to use GPT partitions. :-) > I also > noticed that when I manually mount the drive, it reports a size much > smaller than the whole drive: > [...] > /dev/da0a ufs 698671 651741 -8963 101% > /media/sd You can see that the device is "full". :-) > I.e. 698-ish MiB on a 4-ish GB (3.6-ish GiB) drive. That looks like a size typically found on CDs (650 MB average). > Can I fix that in > place ? I would like the rest of the drive space to possibly log details > of the install in case of questions. Maybe the installation media, even though on writable media, is mounted ro? The easiest thing to capture logs is to perform the installation from a "fully writable" live file system, or simply mount a network resource r/w. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...