Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:28:51 -0700 From: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults Message-ID: <539c60b91002091328k74f497f6p825f2217c19b2e89@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <p06240800c797715ac36e@128.113.24.47> References: <539c60b91002021859h6761ef1fk244d69000e089c65@mail.gmail.com> <p06240800c797715ac36e@128.113.24.47>
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> If you're running into the issue that I think you're running into, > then there is a way to trick sysinstall to do what you want. > > When you ask sysinstall to create that first partition, claim that > you are creating the partition named '/'. =A0If you do that, it will > put the partition in as "a". =A0You couldn't actually partition it as > '/', of course, because that would conflict with '/' on your > running system. =A0But sysinstall will let you say you want to create > '/', and then use "a" for that partition. > > Then select that "a" partition, and tell sysinstall you want to > change the name for that partition. =A0Change it to whatever you > want. =A0At that point sysinstall can't change the partition from "a" > to "d", so you'll have the mount-point that you really want as the > "a" partition. I really should have thought of that! So you create it as "/", and then hit 'M' and change the mount point to, say, /mnt/root... Thanks, Steve
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