From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 15 09:59:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D291065694 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:59:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djr@pdconsec.net) Received: from ipmail02.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail02.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8988FC1A for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:59:16 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAA9e/0qWZcBC/2dsb2JhbADRZIQ8BA Received: from goliath.pdconsec.net (HELO smtp.pdconsec.net) ([150.101.192.66]) by ipmail02.adl6.internode.on.net with SMTP; 15 Nov 2009 20:29:15 +1030 Received: from mail1.pdconsec.net ([192.168.1.41] helo=mail1.pdconsec.net) with IPv4:25 by smtp.pdconsec.net; 15 Nov 2009 19:34:38 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:59:32 +1100 Message-ID: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Thread-Topic: how to do a custom install? Thread-Index: Acpl0osNmH5q33eIT5+XLPNiXUzkyQAAlViz References: <20091115090300.GA8859@thought.org> From: "David Rawling" To: "Gary Kline" Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: RE: how to do a custom install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:59:17 -0000 -----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