Re: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Several trials failed, but perhaps the kind of issues do lead to the cause. I'll describe one trial. Power on -> Enter to boot -> Shell -> # sysinstall -> Standard -> set up MBR partition -> ada0 -> keep geometry: yes -> OffsetSize(ST) EndName PType DescSubtype Flags 0

Re: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I startet the FreeBSD installer, chose the shell and then run: # mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt # cd /mnt # rm -r * # rm -r .* That worked? I can hardly understand why /dev/ad0s1 is mountable (except

Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install FreeBSD on /dev/sda1. I

Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
... On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Screenshots from Linux's GParted: > > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php > > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php > > Judgin

Re: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > ada0 298 GB MBR > > ada0s1 57 GB freebsd > > ada0s2 240 GB EBR > > [snip] > > > > gpart show also doesn't display the 3 ufs and the swap any more. > > Did it previously show them

Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Screenshots from Linux's GParted: > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Judging from the screenshots, /dev/sda1 = /dev/ad0s1, a "DOS primary partiti

Re: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I startet the FreeBSD installer, chose the shell and then run: > > # mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt > # cd /mnt > # rm -r * > # rm -r .* That worked? I can hardly understand why /dev/ad0s1 is mountable (except it's /dev/ad0s1c, i. e. you've

PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install FreeBSD on /dev/sda1. I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /,

Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Since partitioning didn't work with FreeBSD 9.0 64bit, I tried PC-BSD 8.2 64bit and partitioning worked. I had PC-BSD installed on ada0s1, this was the fstab: /dev/label/rootfs0 / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/swap0none