Re: Defining a new slice

2005-02-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the administrator uses /stand/sysinstall to replace a Windows > > partition that exists in front of the FreeBSD system partition with a > > UFS partition, will this rename the system partition a

Re: Defining a new slice

2005-02-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the administrator uses /stand/sysinstall to replace a Windows > partition that exists in front of the FreeBSD system partition with a > UFS partition, will this rename the system partition and break the > bootup process? Yes. DES -- Dag-Erlin

Re: Defining a new slice

2005-02-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good news: You can still use sysinstall from the console after > installation. As root, execute '/stand/sysinstall'. Please use /usr/sbin/sysinstall instead. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Defining a new slice

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:08 am, Vittorio wrote: > As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means > of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3). > Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!) > and I want to transform them into UFS partiti

Re: Defining a new slice

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:08 am, Vittorio wrote: > As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means > of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3). > Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!) > and I want to transform them into UFS partiti

Defining a new slice

2005-02-17 Thread Vittorio
As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3). Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!) and I want to transform them into UFS partitions. How can I do it from a console? Could you point me to a