Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, because people are not required to subscribe to post. That makes sense and does explain

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > > Please Cc responses to the mailing list > > I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing > lists nowadays it's common to reply to

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, > because people are not required to subscribe to post. That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came through the list

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Please Cc responses to the mailing list Actually, I had written that in a reply. I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's comm

OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > Please Cc responses to the mailing list I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays provide an option to automatically repl

Fwd: Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-17 Thread leeoliveshackelford
--- Begin Message --- On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Dear Mr. Block, Greetings. Thank you for your response to my message. Your instruction to change the name of the disk drive from ah0 to aha0 worked. I can now boot FreeBSD. The next trick will be to attempt t

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-16 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the boot loader. The handbook sa

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) wrote: > Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several good morning, > people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made > significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the this is good to

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-15 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the boot loader. The handbook says to run this command, "boot0cfg -B ad0". When I run this com

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread Ben Cottrell
Lee, Are you using DOS-style or GPT partitions? I'm assuming DOS-style, and the rest of this email is only correct if that's the case, so correct me if I'm wrong. There's actually two partition tables at work here -- the "big" one, that lives at the start of the physical disk and divides up the F

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using bsdinstall. I do not wish for the partition table to be changed. How do I instruct bsdinstall to skip the re-partitioning step? It gives an error message

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread Bejoy Thomas
at 5:14 AM, wrote: > Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 9.1 > on a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using bsdinstall. I do > not wish for the partition table to be changed. How do I instruct bsdinstall > to skip the re-partition

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On Mar 15, 2013 12:48 AM, wrote: > > Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using bsdinstall. I do not wish for the partition table to be changed. How do I instruct bsdinstall to skip the re-partit

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using bsdinstall. I do not wish for the partition table to be changed. How do I instruct bsdinstall to skip the re-partitioning step? It gives an error message

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: 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: 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

Re: Partitioning with gpart

2012-08-29 Thread Lynn Steven Killingsworth
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:33:16 -0400, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and another which is on an mbr partition.

Re: Partitioning with gpart

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
from "Lynn Steven Killingsworth" : > I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. > The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and > another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr > disk with zfs and move everything from the

Re: Partitioning with gpart

2012-08-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr disk with zfs and move ever

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-05 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Warren Block wrote: There's a sample in the second half of my disk setup article: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html Looks good. I have a few critiques: 1) Linux and FreeBSD do not have alignme

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-05 Thread Erik Nørgaard
On 5/6/11 7:03 AM, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR # gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container # gpart create -s bsd ad4s1 # Init with a BSD

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:35 AM, wrote: > Robert Simmons wrote:> >> > How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start >> > afresh? >> > >> > gpart destroy ad4 ?? >> >> Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions. >> Think of it this way: you must go backwards down the

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-05 Thread perryh
Robert Simmons wrote: > > How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start > > afresh? > > > > gpart destroy ad4 ?? > > Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions. > Think of it this way: you must go backwards down the path you > just came with a delete for each add, t

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 08:03, Robert Simmons wrote: >> On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: >> > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the >> > following sequence: >> > >> > # gpart c

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 08:03, Robert Simmons wrote: > On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the > > following sequence: > > > > # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR > > #

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:59:44 AM Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:40:22 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the > > following sequence: > > > > # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR > >

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the > following sequence: > > # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR > # gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:40:22 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the > following sequence: > > # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR > # gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, June 04, 2011 a las 08:43:37PM -0600, Warren Block escribió: > On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: > > >> Do I need kernel modules not in the generic kernel or create extra boot > >> partition? > > > > If you use it to make GPT partitions, you will need a freebsd-boot > > p

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Warren Block wrote: > There's a sample in the second half of my disk setup article: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html Looks good. I have a few critiques: 1) Linux and FreeBSD do not have alignment requirements, as far as I know. So you

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: Do I need kernel modules not in the generic kernel or create extra boot partition? If you use it to make GPT partitions, you will need a freebsd-boot partition with the proper bootcode for what you want to do. If you search this mailing list's archive

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > I just realized how many years ago I haven't been partitioning any disks .. > this system is so stable :) So, now I see I have gpart as alternative to > fdisk/bsdlabel. gpart(8) from my experience is far superior to all the older tools. > >

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > - or any problems (problems as in I've never tried that before) - using > gpart instead of the "old" scheme? Sorry for the double post, but the only problem that I've encountered is after creating a encrypted provider with geli(8), that provi

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-05-21 Thread Pete Carah
Some points - I've done most of these... 1. Grub can boot from a secondary partition (my current laptop has a recovery partition in 1, vista (b) in 2, fbsd in 3, and linux in 4 as 2 secondary partitions.) works fine. Grub doesn't boot vista correctly, but handles bsd fine and (of course)

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:17:47PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > > FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really > > see your problem.

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really > see your problem. You are not using Microsloth for anything. That's why I'm not sur

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
ill...@gmail.com skrev: 2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson : On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this still the case? They show up just fine here (8-

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD > 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as > well as CentOS 5.3 Linux. > > Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson : > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: >> I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all > > I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this > still the case? They show up just fine here (8-current), and I am

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread Jorg Andersson
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this still the case? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Michael David Crawford wrote: > I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD > 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well > as CentOS 5.3 Linux. > > Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary partitions

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/26 Michael David Crawford : > I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing.  I have FreeBSD > 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well > as CentOS 5.3 Linux. > > Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary partitions - "slices" in > the FreeBSD pa

Re: Partitioning question

2007-08-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:11:19AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've partitioned my HD into 3 partitions. > > > > One is currently running FreeBSD6.2, the second has my data files (home > > directories). >

Re: Partitioning question

2007-08-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > Hello, > > I've partitioned my HD into 3 partitions. > > One is currently running FreeBSD6.2, the second has my data files (home > directories). > On the third I would like to install FreeBSD-current to play around a > bit and g

Re: Partitioning question

2007-08-09 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Peter Boosten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alain G. Fabry wrote: Is it possible after the installation of current on the 3rd partition that I can use my data files (home directories) without messing up the permissions/etc? As long as the UIDs are the same it shoul

Re: Partitioning question

2007-08-09 Thread Peter Boosten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > Is it possible after the installation of current on the 3rd partition that I > can use my data files > (home directories) without messing up the permissions/etc? > As long as the UIDs are the same it should work. Peter -

Re: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-09 18:56, Wil Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tmpmfs="YES" > > tmpsize="100m" > > tmpmfs_flags="-S -M -o noexec,nosuid" > > > > Is there something wrong with this because it isn't creating a > > /tmp at all. > > > > Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. > > Copyright (c) 1

Re: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-09 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Apr 9, 2006, at 3:05 AM, Wil Hatfield wrote: Thanks for the great kick in the right direction. Is it really this easy? I guess so cause it is working. I dropped in a helloworld script, chmoded it and even as root I couldn't run it. Supreme! mdmfs -M -o noexec,nosuid -s 100m md0 /tmp chmo

RE: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-09 Thread Wil Hatfield
> tmpmfs="YES" > tmpsize="100m" > tmpmfs_flags="-S -M -o noexec,nosuid" > > Is there something wrong with this because it isn't creating a > /tmp at all. > > Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents

RE: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-09 Thread Wil Hatfield
> "tmpmfs" and related variables in rc.conf(5). > By default it does a memory-backed disk instead of file-backed, but > that can be adjusted. > > Personally, I find memory-backed /tmp to be more useful anyway. tmpmfs="YES" tmpsize="100m" tmpmfs_flags="-S -M -o noexec,nosuid" Is there something w

Re: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for the great kick in the right direction. Is it really > > this easy? I > > guess so cause it is working. I dropped in a helloworld script, chmoded it > > and even as root I couldn't run it. Supreme! > > > > mdmfs -M -o noexec,nosuid -s 100m m

RE: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-09 Thread Wil Hatfield
> Thanks for the great kick in the right direction. Is it really > this easy? I > guess so cause it is working. I dropped in a helloworld script, chmoded it > and even as root I couldn't run it. Supreme! > > mdmfs -M -o noexec,nosuid -s 100m md0 /tmp > chmod 1777 /tmp > Ahhh crud! I guess it isn't

RE: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-09 Thread Wil Hatfield
Chad, > this appears that you want a file backed image file mounted as your / > tmp. This should be easy to do. Read the handbook for file-backed md > (4) devices. > > I don't use them for /tmp but I run them with jails... I have about > 60 such image files mounted now for example Thanks for t

Re: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-08 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Apr 8, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Wil Hatfield wrote: Ok I screwed up on one of my machines and forgot to put the /tmp directory on its own slice. How can I do this on an existing system? Linux has this procedure. Anything like it for FreeBSD? dd if=/dev/zero of=tmpMnt bs=1024 count=10 /sbin

Re: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-08 Thread Dhénin Jean-Jacques
I don't see what the trouble. If you want a /tmp directory on a disk, just do : $ cd /foo# the disk you want, may be / $ mkdir /tmp Thats all. 2006/4/9, Wil Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok I screwed up on one of my machines and forgot to put the /tmp directory > on its own slice. How can

Re: partitioning explained

2006-03-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi there, > > I just added a second drive to one of my FreeBSD servers. I am wondering if > somebody can send me to a good URL tutorial that explains how to partition the > drives. It is documented in the handbook and also in the fdisk, disklabel and newfs man pages. In addition, I have wr

Re: partitioning "after the fact"

2006-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I guess I didn't plan well in my partitioning scheme for this laptop. > > I have a 15G primary partition #1 containing XP, > 15G logical partition #2 containing empty space recovered from > a previous Linux install, > 15G primary partition #3 containing FreeBSD, and the rest of > the d

Re: partitioning "after the fact"

2006-01-17 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:13:43PM -0800, Rob wrote: > I guess I didn't plan well in my partitioning scheme for this laptop. > > I have a 15G primary partition #1 containing XP, 15G logical partition > #2 containing empty space recovered from a previous Linux install, 15G > primary partition > #

Re: partitioning "after the fact"

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #2 containing empty space recovered from a previous Linux install, 15G > primary partition > t I would like to make partition #2 to also contain > FreeBSD. But if I remember correctly there is no way to do such a > thing without starting all over a

Re: Partitioning

2006-01-16 Thread RW
On Monday 16 January 2006 07:20, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:03 am, Jona Joachim wrote: > > > > After creating a slice I created the partitions inside it with > > disklabel. In every example I saw the swap partition was in > > the second place. However, I want it to be in the begin

Re: Partitioning

2006-01-15 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:03 am, Jona Joachim wrote: > Hi! > I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I have some concerns about > partitioning. I plan to install FreeBSD-6 as a desktop system > and I bought a new Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB hard > drive to use it as a second disk for storing music, movies,

Re: Partitioning

2005-03-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 07:24 schrieb Quinn Ellis: > Help! FreeBSDamsel in distress. > > I'm just starting out with this OS and already running into a problem. > Initially I installed FreeBSD onto a seperate hdd but that died. I have > a 120gig drive, that i want to partition into two 10gig driv

Re: Partitioning issues

2004-12-31 Thread ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐÐÑ ÐÐÑÐÐÑÐÐÐ
KÃvesdÃn GÃbor wrote: Hello, Thanks for Your answer. If you have raid 5 on 3 x 100-Gb drives you will only get 200Gb partition. In fact, the total capacity is 320GB, I have three 160Gb Samsung sata drives. "not official" Do you mean, that you burn the ISO from ftp server, or you have co

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Carsten Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-03 02:08]: > Hello list. > > I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting > google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. > > I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked

RE: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread JJB
rive. Put FreeBSD install cd in drive and reboot system to start install. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carsten Zimmermann Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:03 PM To: Malcolm Kay Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geom

RE: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN
Ok, which OS was installed on it before trying to install BSD? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carsten Zimmermann Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:03 PM To: Malcolm Kay Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partitioning fails due to drive

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Carsten Zimmermann
Thanks for the answers so far. I tried to use the autocorrected values, of course. But I can't create a partition with them (as said: I was able to delete a NTFS partition w/o problems). When I try to write the partition table, sysinstall / fdisk catches signal 11. It seems fdisk is not able to

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello list. > > I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting > google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list.= > =20 > > I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as > pri slave in my system and wish to install F

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Monday 03 May 2004 18:33, Carsten Zimmermann wrote: > Hello list. > > I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting > google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. > > I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as > p

Re: Partitioning

2004-01-12 Thread Heine Aarbø
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:50:45 -0600, Teilhard Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1. I have created by means other than the installation program, a partitioning of my disk (160 Gig), and I want to install on one of those partitions. I have three primary partitions a

Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

2003-09-18 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, No one want the /usr partition to get full. You don't know what users may put in the /home partition. So the best option will be create two partitions with about 25% to /usr and 75% to the other. Regards SSR From: "Guilmot Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL

Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

2003-09-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:30:15AM -0400, Jud wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:27:37 +0200, "Michael Vondung" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Backup matters aside, is there a significant advantage of having a > > separate > > /home partition at all? If not, just skipping /home and using 70GB for >

Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

2003-09-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Michael Vondung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Backup matters aside, is there a significant advantage of having a separate > /home partition at all? If not, just skipping /home and using 70GB for /usr > (including /usr/home) might be the most practical and flexible approach? If it's not a server

Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

2003-09-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I'm trying to figure out a decent partitioning layout for a workstation. The > system has an ~80GB disk. After /, /var, /tmp and swap, I have 70GB left. > I'm wondering how to split these between /usr and /home. Ironically, it is > more space than I seem to need. The box has only one user (me)

Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

2003-09-15 Thread Jud
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:27:37 +0200, "Michael Vondung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm trying to figure out a decent partitioning layout for a workstation. > The > system has an ~80GB disk. After /, /var, /tmp and swap, I have 70GB left. > I'm wondering how to split these between /usr and /home. Iro

Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

2003-09-15 Thread Guilmot Mike
Michael Vondung wrote: > I'm trying to figure out a decent partitioning layout for a > workstation. The system has an ~80GB disk. After /, /var, /tmp and > swap, I have 70GB left. I'm wondering how to split these between /usr > and /home. Ironically, it is more space than I seem to need. The box >

Re: Partitioning a big hard disk

2003-06-20 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:27, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote: > Hello, i am trying to partition my 1.6TB scsi raid. > The problem is that disklabel only support up to 8 partitions but i want > more (about 30). > > Is there any way to do this ? > I've never had anything to do with hardware raid but if it is s

Re: Partitioning a big hard disk

2003-06-20 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote: > Hello, i am trying to partition my 1.6TB scsi raid. > The problem is that disklabel only support up to 8 partitions but i want > more (about 30). > > Is there any way to do this ? > > Cheers, > Karsten Yes--you'll need to create additional BSD slic

Re: Partitioning

2003-03-12 Thread IAccounts
> Can you send me some information about how much space freebsd will take > up, i want to keep Win XP as my main OS ... Thanks. Although Free can be installed on a partition under 500M, 3G will give you more than adequate playing space, with some reasonable storage in your home directory. I like