Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:18:02 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk Message-ID: <20080314151802.GB19851@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <47D9AA86.2040105@tundraware.com> References: <47D9AA86.2040105@tundraware.com>
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:28:22PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I would like to use the CD install menus to only prepare the hard > disk (Partition, Label, Format) without actually installing anything on > the drive. Can this be done? There seems to be no "None" option for > Distributions, and I cannot find the right magic to make the installer > go ahead and prepare the drive w/o resorting to at least a minimal install. > > I assume if the answer is "no" then that means this has to be done > manually from the fixit command line???? That is the easiest way that I know. I think you can get past the disk build and just turn off all the stuff to install, but doing fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs is really quite easy and less trouble. ////jerry > > Thanks, > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com > PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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