Can not create slice on a SATA drive

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:09:48PM -0500, Xi.Liu wrote:
> Still not very sure, .... (I am new using FreeBSD).
[ PLEASE don't top-post, it looses context. ]


> 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.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)