Jonathan Thornburg wrote on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:53:55AM -0400: > # - from the install disk, shell out before the install > # - ed install.sub
Oops, yes, right, i completely forgot root is hardcoded to "a" so this manipulation is needed. In other words, this is not officially supported. If it breaks for you, you keep the pieces! > Important: Don't try this unless you know what you're doing! > Playing around with partitions this way works fine if you do things > correctly, but mistakes can easily scramble your disk (more accurately, > the data on it). In particular, don't try this until you grok the > FMs disklabel(8), fstab(5), and installboot(8/`arch`. Right. Thanks, Jonathan, for pointing that out!