Re: Installing i386 FreeBSD into a logical partition ?

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On 21 Nov 2007 08:07:54 -0600,
Simon Clubley <clubley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Using FreeBSD 6.2, I tried to do a install into an extended slice, but
there doesn't appear to be an option to specify root as anything other
than on a primary slice. What am I missing ? :-)

The part that sysinstall knows boot0 can't deal with illogical slices.
Nothing to stop you from setting up the partitions, running newfs, then
untarring the distributions[1] on it yourself. It's a bit of handiwork,
but not all that difficult. Most can be done through sysinstall, even.

For a first-time install I would recommend using a primary slice because
sysinstall and the handbook expect you to. It can be on a secondary
disk, though.


[1] Distributions are split gzipped tarballs, so need cat and tar
to extract, as bsdtar has built-in automatic gunzip support.
See also the install.sh that comes with each distribution set.

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