On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Coy Hile wrote:

> I actually don't know. I've not installed a machine other than using
> jumpstart in a long time. The last time I installed from media, I
> didn't try to create a slice but not mount it anywhere. I *think* you
> can do that; I've just not tried. Try setting a size of the slice but
> leave the mountpoint empty and see what happens.

THat should work.

Also, just because something has run newfs on a partition, it doesn't
mean that it can't be used as a raw partition. The datastructures
that newfs puts on a partition only mean something if the partition
is intended to be used (mounted).

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