Partitioning - please not that again

[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?

Yes, they where shown.

> Option: The partition data has been lost. Only the slice "enclosing"
> them has been kept.

Ok :S.

> > How do I have to use the partition editor of the installer?
> 
> Usually as described in The FreeBSD Handbook:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html
> 
> As it seems, the installer guide defaults to GPT; what you have
> (judging from the Linux construction) is MBR, but there is a
> slice available, and that should be sufficient.

Figure 3-16. Manually Create Partitions doesn't work.

> You can compare:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html

So I can start sysinstall from the installer's shell?

Oops, in the following mail there is the answer :). Thank you, I'll try
this.

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