From owner-freebsd-sparc Sat Apr 20 9:30:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from nwkea-mail-1.sun.com (nwkea-mail-1.sun.com [192.18.42.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5549737B416; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 09:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunfin.Finland.Sun.COM ([129.159.101.10]) by nwkea-mail-1.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01980; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 09:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ultrahot.Finland.Sun.COM (ultrahot [129.159.101.87]) by sunfin.Finland.Sun.COM (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id g3KGTrI18856; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:29:53 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from tomppa@localhost) by ultrahot.Finland.Sun.COM (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g3KGTqu17188; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:29:52 +0300 (EEST) From: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15553.38784.272302.170187@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:29:52 +0300 To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: References: <15547.19012.467708.838750@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gordon Tetlow writes: > > I think what David is trying to say is, you need to partition your disk > using the Solaris disktools. Once you have it setup they way you want it > (ie install Solaris with partitions set aside for FreeBSD), you boot a > FreeBSD/sparc64 cd and do the install into the already set aside partition > (from the Solaris install). You don't use the FreeBSD disklabel tool at > all, as it doesn't read Solaris disklabels. While the kernel is smart > enough to know about it, that logic hasn't made it into the disklabel > userland tool. > This is exactly what I have tried. I have made Solaris partition a/1 for FreeBSD which is first 4G of this disk and you can see it on my Solaris partition table. So now I wanna know how to install FreeBSD here if I don't use disklabel. I cannot use newfs or mount. Only thing I can do is disklabel -r -w ad0 auto. Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 root wm 0 - 8295 3.99GB (8296/0/0) 8362368 1 swap wu 8296 - 9336 512.37MB (1041/0/0) 1049328 2 backup wu 0 - 17659 8.49GB (17660/0/0) 17801280 3 unassigned wm 9337 - 17659 4.00GB (8323/0/0) 8389584 Tomppa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message