how to do a custom install?

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:59:32PM +1100, David Rawling wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Kline
> Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM
>  
> 
> 	due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours.  i am
> 	currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question
> 	about doing a "custom" install that would let me slice the drive into
> 	more that four pieces.
> 
> 	i am building, by default, 
> 
> 	/,
> 	/var
> 	SWAP,  and 
> 	/usr
> 
> 	it has been years since my custom install where [[*some*]] technique
> 	let me slice something like, say,
> 
> 	/,
> 	/var,
> 	/tmp,
> 	/usr/local/
> 	SWAP,  and
> 	/usr
> 
> 	anybody remember what keys to hit in the installation procedure?
> 
> 	tia,
> 
> 	gary
> 
> I can't say that I remember the keystrokes, but you can have multiple disk slices (aka Windows/DOS partitions) and within each slice, multiple BSD partitions (IIRC up to 8).
> 
> I have mine partitioned into (generally)
> 
> / - 1GB
> swap - 2x - 4x RAM
> /tmp - 4GB
> /var - 20GB
> /usr - 40%
> /backup - remainder
> 
> I use the whole disk for BSD (single slice) and create the partitions as whatever size suits.
> 
> Dave.



	yeah, i kinda, sorta remember now.  you type "A" for the entire
	drive, then keep slicing off pieces.  hmm, i think once i did that
	and got a big, fat X for the 5th one....   maybe i didn't enter 
	the "A" that time.

	just for the heck of it, i'll retry,

	tx,

	gary




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> David Rawling
> PD Consulting And Security
> Email: djr at pdconsec.net
> 

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