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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:50:38 -0500
From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:02:29 -0800
perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> wrote:
> 
> > 1. The Guided partitioning doesn't suggest any more to
> > create /var, /tmp, /usr, etc. file systems. Is it really
> > the recommendation to go with just / ?
> 
> Depends on who you ask :) and on your intended usage.
> 
> > 2. Is there a way to use the old sysinstall to install FreeBSD 9? 
> 
> Not using the standard distribution IIUC.  You might want to look
> at http://druidbsd.sf.net/
> [...]

This may be just what I need - thank you.

-- 
Janos Dohanics