On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk?
Yes. The installer
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:51:15 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
It is possible to mount filesystems manually from the shell and have
bsdinstall continue with the install without formatting them. It's been
a while since I tried that, and I don't recall the exact details.
bsdinstall(8)
The brutal and brute-force approach can work - better if you boot from
a USB stick, of course. You can untar base.tzx and kernel.tzx in your
/, with filesystems mounted. As Polytropon says, do a backup of what
you'll want afterwards.
This approach will leave a lot of cruft (old versions of
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk?
I have one directory of data that I want to keep. I can boot from the
installer and rm every directory except that (/bin /boot etc), but how
could I install the OS from there? I've done ZFS on root installs with
the shell and
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk?
Yes. The installer supports not formatting existing partitions.
The file system characteristica will be kept, possible content
will overwritten. Note that superfluous
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk?
Yes. The installer supports not formatting existing
