FreeBSD 9.3 new install problems ....

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 08:35:19AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 07/31/14 22:33, Warren Block wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> .... 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?
>
> Mostly saved me possible typos typing it all in live .... It just 
> entered the same gpt/gstripe/newfs.etc commands I would have typed in at 
> the console ....

Why don't you use the installer that comes on the install images,
`bsdinstall`?

Roland
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