Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:29:52 +0300 From: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <15553.38784.272302.170187@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204191255180.27481-100000@smtp.gnf.org> References: <15547.19012.467708.838750@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204191255180.27481-100000@smtp.gnf.org>
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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
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