Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:59:32 +1100 From: "David Rawling" <djr@pdconsec.net> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: how to do a custom install? Message-ID: <BFDFFE175893404B8BC865EE888E83B80122CC@pd-exbe.pdconsec.local> References: <20091115090300.GA8859@thought.org>
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-----Original Message----- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM =20 due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a "custom" install that would let me slice the drive into more that four pieces. i am building, by default,=20 /, /var SWAP, and=20 /usr it has been years since my custom install where [[*some*]] technique let me slice something like, say, /, /var, /tmp, /usr/local/ SWAP, and /usr anybody remember what keys to hit in the installation procedure? tia, gary I can't say that I remember the keystrokes, but you can have multiple = disk slices (aka Windows/DOS partitions) and within each slice, multiple = BSD partitions (IIRC up to 8). I have mine partitioned into (generally) / - 1GB swap - 2x - 4x RAM /tmp - 4GB /var - 20GB /usr - 40% /backup - remainder I use the whole disk for BSD (single slice) and create the partitions as = whatever size suits. Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Email: djr@pdconsec.net
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