Carsten Kunze wrote: > Rick Macklem <rmacklem_at_uoguelph.ca> wrote: > > > Did you use "Manual" when it gets to the partitioning screen? > > When I've done this, after selecting "Manual MBR" (or whatever it's called, > > one or two below "Auto"), it should show you the slices > > (what FreeBSD calls the 4 MBR partitions): > > - Then I select the "freebsd" (move around until it is highlighted one) > > and create partitions within it with "Create" at the bottom of the > > screen. > > (I always have "fun" with the interface, but repeated attempts with <tab> > > and the arrow keys eventually get me to the right place on the screen;-) > > I think I did select "auto" which brings me into the "manual" screen after > few > steps. It does show the slices and does even show NTFS and Linux > partitions inside the extended partition (I have 3 primary MBR partitions, > first is freebsd, then two NTFS, then an extendet with further NTFS and > Linux). > > The first 10MB of the first slice (freebsd) had been cleared with > "dd if=/dev/zero of=...". When I put the cursor line on this slice and > select "create" it doesn't allow me to create the freebsd-ufs for "/". > Sorry, I can`t explain why it would fail. I have seen different fdisks have differing opinions w.r.t. partition alignment in the past. > > Good luck with it, rick > > ps: If it doesn't show the slices,I'm guessing the MBR doesn't make sense > > to > > FreeBSD's fdisk. You can go to "<Shell>" instead of "<Install>" and > > then > > try typing "fdisk". > > I did try the shell and typed "fdisk" and "disklabel" but this did not work > as > known from other BSDs. > You didn`t say what `fdisk` gave as output. If it doesn`t show your slices, I can only guess that the MBR isn`t understood by FreeBSD for some reason. I don`t use it, but gpart is the preferred FreeBSD command. You might try that instead. As I said, it works for me, but I use a simple: - windows NTFS - windows NTFS - freebsd set of slices and I created freebsd with the "Manual MBR" option of the installer. I do not know what ``auto`` might have done. Over the years, I have found that different variants of "fdisk" have different ideas w.r.t. alignment. > The actually issue is that I can't create something in the found freebsd > slice. In the past I did simply remove this slice and added a new one > (since the free space on the disk had exactly been what I wanted to > use). But now the seemingly free space is not actually completely free > so I'd like to not delete the slice. The installer should support using > this slice. > Well, although installing is always a bit scary, if you don`t touch the other slices, I`d delete and create the freebsd one. It gets to a certain point when doing the `Manual MBR` before it asks you if you want to save it on disk. rick > Carsten > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Fri Dec 11 2015 - 22:10:30 UTC
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