On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:28 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 00:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > I meant the "really manual mode" (CLI) as to be seen in > > Fig. 3-10, named "Shell" (that's why the confusion, sorry). > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html > > "Manually Create Partitions" doesn't work. The MD5sum for the ISO was ok > and the burned DVD was verified.
How does "doesn't work" appear? As far as I know, the difference to manual is that in _this_ method, you need to create your partitions yourself (the default behaviour in ye olde sysinstall); otherwise, I think one partition covering the whole slice will be created, this can be sub-optimum (especially in "worse case scenarios"). > I did not test "Shell" until now and it's to late to search and read a > howto. The "Shell" way should always work, even when the installer should "know better". You can find details on how to use the CLI tools in Warren's article. > When startup finished I push enter > Install > keyboard: German > ISO-8859-1 > hostname: freebsd > [*] doc, games, lib32, ports, src > > Guided Partitioning > Select the disk on which to install FreeBSD: ada0 > > Partition (not "Entire Disk") > That's the correct approach. > Continuing doesn't work, or I don't know what to do. FWIW, I'll use MBR > and if possible / only. Maybe it's because you have a totally non-standard content already on the disk (many Linusi, "extended DOS partitions" and so on, and the installer gets confused). That's why it would probably be easier to drop to the "Shell" command line and use either fdisk + bsdlabel _or_ gpart. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
