From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 09:37:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0721B6B for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:37:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm17-vm0.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (nm17-vm0.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.183.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B978FC12 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.146.183.216] by nm17.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 09:31:24 -0000 Received: from [77.238.184.72] by tm9.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 09:31:24 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp141.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 09:31:24 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1353835884; bh=Pf7YXXD3eWarJCab6v8mRNgSmp0n9aPIa3VgDu6USM8=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GAy1OS3amp+TENBe3g0j7PNDD44nVwtKP+BGIOIexWzomm/yTHsx7SomYXKV4RoR6CEVbuNr/+ettyhAVXbyzJxGflZAVY/7IQKDFAmKV9seDm/SuMlKhFwvRIvKFUSy1kw2PyWsmMgYa/81wgQmb59zwi0uDmzxd6YSGwq6jHE= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 666570.92927.bm@smtp141.mail.ukl.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: wbpnXLgVM1noSNG14f56Lq5_1RGpUbhsyDjMjtoMkqVojV9 RcS2.Bbnj04Nh2CoT8x2_Otaydc.JICTUlY4NOLLwqWGmHLqRDK6iGnrPPGg v4BbbS4zzT8clMD_SqiZHbrX.Hkk5ayovXnzgB0.8xdEWHnOAuUVw3k0X1EO jqf.P_ay6nyD3OQUYKTrpycuMQnHvegTiKOCouSJuM0LeNyt1EowRl8d6uNJ e3xlUA9_5yL5OzWVhVGV.ZKw5kdwhRhPxaECSsbQUI.8ccfN0vdcgDm.aF0F ss84IN_JHWZcmNr28BFMiu2BD92eNihxwYgy.RYBlow1j9nGi3QagVqdDOMa PTXASmXV7QbGk_iD7bRgXVdAI4h2ZFOYBDhiF7ouAE2ALrrR009g8fPOnuQ7 yuZccYtVE_Qh8ad5xBLZSswhNDjD8A7BArlgi X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [78.50.22.87] (ralf.mardorf@78.50.22.87 with login) by smtp141.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2012 09:31:24 +0000 GMT Message-ID: <1353835884.2773.27.camel@q> Subject: Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0? From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:31:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1353795280.2662.12.camel@q> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:37:42 -0000 On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:06 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I use the amd64 install DVD. > > > > With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to > > ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. FWIW if I reinstall GRUB legacy > > to /dev/sda, the boot flag will be set for the extended > > partition. /dev/sda1 is an empty ext3 partition, size 57.83 GiB. > > Delete it, or set it to type 0xa5. I think the first is probably better > for bsdinstall to see it as available. Expect boot loaders to be > overwritten, so make a backup, preferably of everything. It already was deleted for the last attempts. Another day, fortunately I've got much time, so I'll read how to use the shell for partitioning. I don't know if I'm an idiot or if the installer is broken, most likely I'm an idiot + the installer is broken. Regards, Ralf