From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 14:55:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCDE1065697; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:55:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1A68FC0C; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5284AE820B; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:55:31 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from :to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=QlOOSbq5+k9A 65ZWPHD+lfNwx7c=; b=aerCazZQPyeFOy1Sg69W7lzNLpSuZVklTQnOZ1+j2Dz2 BtNAj98VTO3tcU+RUHKiXqXs8eqYc9GYvn0lWjIRN2wvWsfcYIuDvuH+TgUyemlm d9qidAnBTVYYhZky9+OljRjxbx9RpgyKeqEYjpTL+XeBC4f5qOAFtrSryGQjJaA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from:to :cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=SLn0jR CuPu7WWnjSRSW5VRyUbJyCjEiJAN3MfqNSXjKTeIDhCKE91ZQmQ0RMWhcSnMO8J7 QCXcWMzpilTQNUBykkTCmk+pYZB1MRX5nFTBC0jb5ebNJT505ALmwGuPqsxtfHtg 5pWP42eudQU3OlUlZ9Fg8mdHsfZAwUcR/wNAc= Received: from unknown (client-86-23-95-6.brhm.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.23.95.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F0288E820A; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:55:30 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:55:27 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Nathan Whitehorn Message-ID: <20110201145527.000002d7@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4D3C8037.6040406@freebsd.org> References: <4D28EB32.9090807@freebsd.org> <4D3C8037.6040406@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs9 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: BSDInstall ISO images X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:55:33 -0000 On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:23:35 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > There's a help line at the bottom of the screen with this > information. Do you have a suggestion for making it more intuitive? > Dialog doesn't support drop-down menus, which is what I would > ordinarily use on this field. ae@ had a good idea with his sade project at svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/ae/usr.sbin/sade . It lists the available partition types in a list which the user can select from. > > - Home directory - /usr/home was the traditional home directory root > > for BSD I thought. I thought it was /home. If you don't have a separate /home partition then /home gets symlinked to /usr/home. But please don't set the homedir to /usr/home in /etc/passwd because that'll break systems where people put /home on a different disk. -- Bruce Cran