On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Steven Hartland 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.
Unfortunately not, although work is in progress on teaching sysinstall about gpart. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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