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(Split from an existing thread, http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?p=149210.)
An MBR install in the bsdinstall(8) partition editor on a blank disk goes like this:
An MBR install in the bsdinstall(8) partition editor on a blank disk goes like this:
- Select Manual partitioning.
- Select Create on desired drive.
- Select MBR partitioning scheme.
- Select Create on desired drive again to create partition (slice). Give it the total size desired for FreeBSD, and no mountpoint.
- Highlight adxs1.
- Select Create to create a FreeBSD "partition". Give it a type of freebsd-ufs, a size of 2G and a mountpoint of /. adxs1a is created.
- Highlight will automatically move back to the slice line, adxs1.
- Select Create to create a FreeBSD swap partition. Change type to freebsd-swap, enter a size, but no mountpoint. This will show as adxs1b.
- Highlight will automatically move back to the slice line, adxs1.
- Continue selecting Create to create /var, /tmp, and /usr.
- Select Finish.