Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 07:53:40 +1100 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>, chris@tourneyland.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hou-freebsd@cityscope.net Subject: Re: Whoops - I forgot how to do partitioning Message-ID: <00022507551800.00331@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002231217550.3201-100000@mammalia.sea>
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Hello -Why not simply use the "a" command - It does everything for you automatically On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 chris@tourneyland.com wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > I'm reinstalling FreeBSD on a machine of mine (why the heck not), and I > > realize I've forgotten everything I know about setting partitions and then > > labelling them. I believe before I had 1 slice with 3 partitions: a swap, > > something for var, and then the rest. But I almost certainly have that wrong. > > > > I looked in the handbook, the FAQs, and the tutorials listed on the .org > > page and couldn't find anything. And since my copy of The Complete FreeBSD > > won't be here for another week, I'm a bit stuck. > > > > Can anyone point me to somewhere that will refresh my memory? > > When you get to the partition editor in /stand/sysinstall, you can use the > option "a" to have it automatically create them for you. It will probably > give you 40MB for /, 20MB for /var, double your ram for swap, and the rest > /usr. > Last time I installed, I didn't use the "a" option because I wanted to > make /var a link to /usr/var. So I made 40MB /, 256MB swap, and the rest > /usr. The installation complained that I had no /var, but I gently > assured it that all was well, and went on with the install as usual. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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