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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>I am trying to manually install the latest DragonFly BSD version (5.8.0) on a UEFI Laptop:<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span color="grey5" font-size="xxxl" class="Typostyled__StyledInfoTypo-sc-5k7scz-0 iFJXrW" style="font-family: SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(39, 36, 34); line-height: 44px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt;">ASUS </span><span style="font-family: SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.4px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ZENBOOK
PRO I7-7700HQ/16GB/512GB SSD BLACK, Notebook mit 15,6 Zoll Display, Core™ i7 Prozessor, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, GeForce® GTX1050, Matte Black.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The first partition I need to create is the EFI System Partition (ESP). However,
I cannot format it with fat and mount it. Here is the sequence of commands I ran after booting and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">logging in as root:</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.4px; font-size: 10pt;"></span><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">gpt destroy nvme0</span></font></p>
<p><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">gpt create -f nvme0</span></font></p>
<p><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">gpt add -i 0 -s 1048576 -t efi nvme0</span></font></p>
<p><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">newfs_msdos /dev/nvme0s0 # here I get the message: "newfs_msdos: /dev/nvme0s0: Read-only file system</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"</span></span></font></p>
<p><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">mount_msdos /dev/nvme0s0 /mnt # The message here is @</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">mount_msdos: /dev/nvme0s0:
Invalid argument"</span></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I refrain on purpose on creating a disklabel partition within nvme0s0 and formatting it, because I plan to install t</span></span></font><span style="font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">he
rEFInd Boot Manager on the ESP, so the ESP has to be readable also by other operating system. Curiously, with the previous DragonFly version I was able to do that.</span></p>
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<p><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you very much for your help in advance. Any suggestions will be appreciated.</span></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best regards,</span></span></font></p>
<p><font face="SourceSansPro, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Martin</span></span></font></p>
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