FreeBSD 8 GPT install, how?

nickolasbug at gmail.com nickolasbug at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 20:12:07 UTC 2009


2009/12/8 Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>:
> Thanks to all those who responded the missing piece of data was indeed
> you MUST use the DVD, the CD which mentioned in several places simply
> doesn't work as it doesn't have the required files.
>
> It also still shocks me that the emergency holographic shell still
> doesn't have mount_ufs which pretty much makes it useless :(

Use "mount" (not mount_ufs). It mounts UFS by default.
If you wanna use another FS, you should load kernel module - use
kldload with full path to kernel module.
For example, if you wanna load ext2fs module, type
kldload /dist/boot/kernel/ext2fs.ko
mount -t ext2fs <device> <mountpoint>


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