9.0 install and journaling

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, R Skinner wrote:

> So I went to the handbook. I'm still a little confused though: can one still 
> setup the usr and var (and so forth)? It said you possibly could, but it 
> escaped me as to how.

Use the bsdinstall partition editor to manually create the partitions. 
I documented how to create an old-fashioned MBR layout with bsdinstall 
on the forums a while back:
   http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210&postcount=13

The process would be similar for GPT, which is really the way to go now.