be sure sd?b is bigger then your physical RAM will be You may want to also make a /dev/rsd?d /var partition newfs /dev/rsd?a ; newfs /dev/rsd?d ; newfs /dev/rsd?f mount /dev/rsd?a /mnt mkdir /mnt/var ; mount /dev/sd?d /mnt/var # if you made one mkdir /mnt/usr ; mount /dev/sd?f /mnt/usr