Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:10:56 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does Sysinstall Mount File Systems? Message-ID: <20100202231056.aa7a20fa.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <201002022156.o12LuH3r022345@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201002022156.o12LuH3r022345@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:56:17 -0600, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > How does one tell sysinstall to use an existing disk that is > already formatted? If I interpret your question correctly, you are intending to ask how sysinstall can install on an already sliced, partitioned and formatted disk; is this correct? You chose "Custom" for the installation. In the partition editor, you assign the the located partitions to the functional subtrees (/, swap, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home - or any layout you want) and make sure that they are of the type "UFS+S" (except / which is usually "UFS" without S), and the format option is set to "N" which will cause sysinstall not to format the partitions. In other words: It's obvious - you just use the disk. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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