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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Label editor is snake oil! Date: 6 Aug 1996 19:12:37 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 95 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4u85f5$fut@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <4tunu6$bu4@usenetp1.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jan Neal (UFCK28A@prodigy.com) wrote: : Ok, I was gliding through the installation of 2.1.5, and the label edit : stopped me cold. I am installing on a seperate primary partition along : with Win95, unfortunatly I'm unsure how to proceed, because I can't : figure out how to use the label editor (for mounting the slices, etc.) : I'm using a pentium with 16meg ram, the partition is set to a minimum but : it's suffcient because I only need emacs. : I request your assistance. : -Brian Neal Here's an explanation I wrote for someone working on a 150 megabyte slice/partition that may be useful--no warranty! It starts before you get to the disk label editor. Basically what I do is just read the screen carefully. Choose Novice and work through it step by step. There are some message screens where you press Enter to move to the next screen. Then there's a screen that asks which disk you want to work on. Since my systems have a couple of disks each I always get this message. You highlight the one you want and press Spacebar, which puts an X in the box next to the disk you want. Then press Enter to go to next screen. Now you get a list of existing partitions on the disk. You should keep in mind how big your dos partition (okay, slice, who cares) is so you don't inadvertently delete it. On this screen you put the highlight-- the reverse video--on the partition where you want to put FreeBSD. Presumably your 150 megabytes. Press D to delete the partition Press C to create the partition Yes, do both of those in the above order. When you press C I think it asks how big you want it to be, with the entire size of the partition listed in 512 K blocks. If you want to devote the entire amount of this partition to FreeBSD, press enter. (I think this is what you want.) If you want to use only 140 megabytes, type 140M in the box and then (you might have to press TAB to get the cursor on the EXIT message) press enter. Then with the highlight on this slice you have created, which should now have a C is the right-hand column, press S. This will put an A next to the C. (So intuitive!!!!) Press Q to exit this screen and move on. Now you get another message about creating partitions. Press Enter. Now this screen looks like the last one but it's different. At the top it says FreeBSD Disklabel Editor or something like that. In reverse video you should see the available partition, the one you just created, of the size you created, say 150 M. Down below you will see a list of the other stuff on the same disk that FreeBSD seems to know about. You might want to write down what it says so that as partitions are added you will know which ones are the new ones. Now, with the highlight on the bar naming the partition you have created for FreeBSD, press C. This opens a box asking how big you want to make this partition. This is a dividing up of the "slice" you created, a dividing up of the 150 M. So, you should have decided already what you want to do here--say, 24 for /, 26 for swap, 100 for /usr? Anyway, you're in the little dialog box, having pressed C. Now put 24M in the box and press enter (tab to the exit message if necessary). Next it will ask you if this is a file system or swap. Put the highlight on file system and press enter (or press spacebar first to put an x next to filesystem if necessary, I don't remember these things very well because I just find out what to do when the screen is there). Then it says: Where do you want to mount this? Put / in the box and exit from the box. Now there will be another item in the list in the middle of the screen, a partition label, a mount point (/) and a size of 24 M. Now the highlight should be back on the slice thing at the top of the screen. Press C again, put 26M in the box, choose swap instead of file system, exit. Again, press C, put 100M in the box, tell it you want a file system, tell it to mount it on /usr, exit, and I think you're done. Press Q to quit this whole screen. (Piece o'cake, right?) Now you'll get the message about selecting distributions. Choose X-User probably as one that fits in the size of the partition you will have. At some point it will ask you where you want to install from, i.e., the install medium. There are probably more screens that I've forgotten but I think this will get you through the hard part. Annelise