Using bsdinstall to create MBR

Doug Hardie bc979 at lafn.org
Wed Mar 13 04:25:50 UTC 2013


On 12 March 2013, at 18:50, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk.  I can set the partition type to MBR fine.  However, when trying to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything I have tried gives an error message.  I wanted one for / and one for swap.  How do I create the two slices?
> 
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210&postcount=13
> 

Thank you !!!!.  That shows the correct procedure.  I never would have guessed that.  It works just fine.  This needs to be included in the handbook.


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