Partitioning - please not that again

[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 ->


Offset    Size(ST)  End        Name  PType Desc    Subtype Flags
        0        63         62 -     12    unused    0
       63 121274433 1212574495 ada0s1 8    freebsd 165
121274496       250  121274745 -     12    unused    0
121274746 503862599  625137344 ada0s2 4    ext.DOS   5
625137345      5103  625142447 -     12    unused    0

Q = Finish -> Boot manager: None ->


For other trials I also used W instead of Q and/or I deleted and created
ada0s1.


I always get:
"Disc slicing warning:
 chunk ´ada0s2´ [121274746..625137344] does not start on track boundary"

ok --> ok -> create BSD partition: ok ->

Disk: ada0 Partition name: adaos1 Free: 121274433 blocks (59216MB)

(No Entries before) A = Auto Defaults ->

Part    Mount Size   Newfs
ada0s1a /     1024MB UFS2   Y
ada0s1b swap  4096MB SWAP
ada0s1d /var  7916MB UFS2+S Y
ada0s1e /tmp  1024MB UFS2+S Y
ada0s1f /usr 45156MB UFS2+S Y

If I chose Create instead of Auto, there aren't enough MB available, I
can chose Auto and than R (delete + merge), than there's enough space to
continue with Create. For this trial I only used Auto.

-> Q = Finish -> 6 Averaged User -> en Doc -> Port collection: Yes -> ok
-> 1 CD/DVD ->

"Message: Couldn't create directory /dist:
          Read-only file system"

-> ok ->

"Message: Error mounting /dev/cd0 on /dist:
          No such file or directory (2)"

ok -> Adjust media configuration: yes -> Options -> Nothing edited ->
Q(uit) -> Cancel -> "Installation...with some errors" (IOW no
installation ;) -> ok -> Exit install -> # exit (Exit shell, back to
installer) ->

I continued this trial with the regular installer.

Install -> Keymap..., Hostname..., [*] doc games lib32 ports [ ] src ->

Partitioning: Manual -> ada0s1 57GB BSD -> Auto -> ada0 ok -> Partition
(not entire Disk) ->

Add Partition
Type: freebsd
Size: 2551kB
Mountpoint

*?* continuing didn't work

Regards,
Ralf