Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:00:00 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning - please not that again Message-ID: <1355709600.4691.15.camel@q> In-Reply-To: <20121217021723.35457dbd.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1355702700.2452.32.camel@q> <20121217021723.35457dbd.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > ada0 298 GB MBR > > ada0s1 57 GB freebsd > > ada0s2 240 GB EBR > > [snip] > > > > gpart show also doesn't display the 3 ufs and the swap any more. > > Did it previously show them? Yes, they where shown. > Option: The partition data has been lost. Only the slice "enclosing" > them has been kept. Ok :S. > > How do I have to use the partition editor of the installer? > > Usually as described in The FreeBSD Handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html > > As it seems, the installer guide defaults to GPT; what you have > (judging from the Linux construction) is MBR, but there is a > slice available, and that should be sufficient. Figure 3-16. Manually Create Partitions doesn't work. > You can compare: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html So I can start sysinstall from the installer's shell? Oops, in the following mail there is the answer :). Thank you, I'll try this. ...
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