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Is the issue just that their installer defaults to using GPT as of version 9 or are you saying they've dropped support for traditional partitions?
Whenever I've played with the BSD's I've always created the type a5/a6 partitions from linux rather than try and partition using the BSD installer. Is this no longer possible?
Is the issue just that their installer defaults to using GPT as of version 9 or are you saying they've dropped support for traditional partitions?
Whenever I've played with the BSD's I've always created the type a5/a6 partitions from linux rather than try and partition using the BSD installer. Is this no longer possible?
I'm not really sure on that. FreeBSD 9 comes with a new installer that is greatly simplified (although I think sysinstall is still there in the Beta). I'll look into it now I've got some spare time
GazL, I updated to the 9-BETAs on a system where I already has FreeBSD installed. It saw my partition table and slices in the installer, so you should have no problems using a traditional layout.
Thanks for this dive!
I am hopeful that the FreeBSD developers will publish a guide on dual booting other OSs when 9.0 is released. I am very comfortable dual booting slackware/freebsd with FreeBSD 8.x and earlier using sysinstall. The rules have changed with GPT. I've asked this question in the freebsd forum (many thanks to dive's contribution in the freebsd forum thread- slackhead).
Ok, after a lot of messing around I found out a few things.
Use the new bsdinstall 'manual' partition creator to create BSD Label partitions and all is good.
Grub2 refuses to see ufs/ufs2 file systems so it means falling back to good old lilo with something like:
Slightly OT, I would like to see a tutorial on booting Slackware and Netbsd side by side. I would like to install pkgsrc on Slackware but I couldn't find a recent tutorial.
bsdinstall supports other partition types as well, so unless you want GPT partition system and with that Grub2, you don't have to do this.
Hi, ruario. I have been using Grub2 since it first showed up on SBo, & the GPT partition system for the past few months. I really don't have to do this, but I want to try.
Regards,
Bill
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