Creating Partitions and Assigning Mount Points
After you press Enter on the informational message telling you about creating a DOS-style (fdisk) partitioning scheme, one of two things will happen:
If you have only one hard disk in your system, you will be placed directly into the FreeBSD Partition Editor. In this case, you can skip the next section, “Selecting Hard Disks,” and continue with “Partitioning the Disk(s).”
If you have more than one hard disk in your system, you will be given a menu to select on which hard disk or disks you want to install FreeBSD. If this is the case, read the next section, “Selecting Hard Disks.”
Caution
Creating partitions and assigning mount points are areas in which a mistake can cause the loss of all data on your ...
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