Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:03:29 -0600 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8 GPT install, how? Message-ID: <790a9fff0912030103o77614655i3762a67cf3967906@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AB1C873C57E446B29135C09133000047@multiplay.co.uk> References: <AB1C873C57E446B29135C09133000047@multiplay.co.uk>
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On 12/2/09, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> wrote: > Looking at the release notes it seems FreeBSD 8 now supports booting from > a GPT formatted partition but going through the installer it seems, please > correct me if I'm wrong, that its still no possible to actually install > using a standard disk1 to a clean machine with a large disk? > > I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on previous > versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping there was a nice > easy way on 8.0 given the improvements listed in the release notes. > > Any pointers? > If you have a look at the Root On ZFS tutorial, it shows how to create a GPT formated system from the Fixit environment: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS Note: In step 4 it is using the size in sectors, but you can also use 4G instead of 8388608. Scot
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