FreeBSD 9.3 new install problems ....

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

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> .... I am new to FreeBSD, been using UNIX since '86 (ConvexOS, then SGI), 
> Linux since 1995 ISlack, Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS). I just apparently 
> completed an install of FreeBSD AMD64 on a purpose-built computer, Jaguar 
> Kabini based (Sempron 3850), 4 X 1 TB HGST SATA3 HDD's, 16 GB RAM. I 
> partitioned the HDD;s using the shell option from the partition dialog (used 
> a shell script,

Why?  What did the shell script do?