Can not create slice on a SATA drive

[obrien at freebsd.org (David O'Brien)]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:09:48PM -0500, Xi.Liu wrote:
> >>Still not very sure, .... (I am new using FreeBSD).
> >>I guess even I boot singel user, the disk will still be  mounted as /. 
> >Correct.  / will be mount read-only.
> >>Do I have to boot from a bootable-CD (say the installation CD)?
> >
> >Nope, you can use /usr/sbin/sysinstall.
> >But you'll have to mount /usr (but do it read-only!) first if you didn't
> >combine / + /usr into a single partition.
> 
> I'm always using the 'cheat' option:
> sysctl -w kern.geom.debugflags=16
> 
> Not shure if it is without ill effects.

It allows total foot shooting and is quite dangerous.
It is 'rm -rf' where the default FS to rm is /

Booting single user is what most people should be doing for now.
Especially someone "I am new using FreeBSD".

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-- David  (obrien_(_at_)_FreeBSD_(_dot_)_org)