From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 17 02:00:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA7724B for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:00:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm4.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm4.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BEE8FC0A for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:00:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.82.105.224] by nm4.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 02:00:01 -0000 Received: from [217.146.189.69] by tm20.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 02:00:01 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp149.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 02:00:01 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1355709601; bh=19kpw46ybbtnYJc2yZqGXA+QMLjiGFHoVg6WVLru8h8=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=0Sp3baVfZnyFHdjEDC6MBnBKR8c15i8U5FeeKBjPlZPnTPgZ9ZYNlJRaHHYrlyHCIB2dxMrxrYRuKW5RbhdWkeFTQktmzEtDNKujF0vDCIQmcodthazkJ6WsxYYcXFyMev7w+O4IwcSqVAOs4hiQpNGqr52u7GO8TSBRVgTf6wM= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 767212.42011.bm@smtp149.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 7hyV4PMVM1ltdgmh3STScE5wqAyPNBc2hMaBascI.5Zu.d7 U4Q8j4IqosrFRJIlt.OufM6ad8eVWq2sz8gQXz5CESr2LNw92Yvp7w6wLrt5 fx0yh.hIIfG5z.yRs9yBMpxkk9zgYLn_eT__xppV7yfreCbymMn0FJzV7_zT WEg2tM70cRDh848QI4EVNndz8KMgqXjrlmCEWxSkUzmkdZmjjLCv7dzwM3D6 1wdm_.u92vDLhJIW5MJdcE4wOdvfDXanuVUsF9AqKV5z968c2f4iAU6gNF7_ 5V6yrHNAMP_fIIShRRjlk5oXuMYt7s2mFuaeIJYKGDmcZgpmFpThEICbDbMO buMu9CjrOfc72f2sN.q783MJ2RFwvLmzXnDP1.s2G90HM95uZejFROukBsKu e4WiQIbonD4_2mPR4F6o5YRHB2RDGS0si7oOcko0Be8NHcCaDmM9OIv2fMaj ebputAOUXuN0V_NNULMKgG6e1.OYNyvPVlVxlgQeVslA1u3Vqoi83C6cxt.y 4NzsJOV.YpfSIZXF3dCPpYdON6QBMCjLWu4vSu37_SdFqfm.PEw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [92.231.4.209] (ralf.mardorf@92.231.4.209 with login) by smtp149.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Dec 2012 18:00:01 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1355709600.4691.15.camel@q> Subject: Re: Partitioning - please not that again From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:00:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20121217021723.35457dbd.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1355702700.2452.32.camel@q> <20121217021723.35457dbd.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:00:10 -0000 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. ...