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Date:      Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:29:12 +0100
From:      Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?
Message-ID:  <1353846552.2508.23.camel@q>
In-Reply-To: <20121125131908.671f6d31.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:19 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> How does "doesn't work" appear?

My apologies that I didn't wrote all error messages, they were about
non-bootable and other things. I guess it'
s better to ignore this and to continue with ...

> Maybe it's because you have a totally non-standard content
> already on the disk (many Linusi, "extended DOS partitions"
> and so on, and the installer gets confused). That's why it
> would probably be easier to drop to the "Shell" command line
> and use either fdisk + bsdlabel _or_ gpart.

... gpart.

Right now I'll shut down Linux and restart the installer and simply try,
what I've written here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-November/246767.html

I'll wait a few minutes, perhaps you read it and say if this is ok.

Regards,
Ralf





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