Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:55:27 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: BSDInstall ISO images Message-ID: <20110201145527.000002d7@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4D3C8037.6040406@freebsd.org> References: <4D28EB32.9090807@freebsd.org> <AANLkTik2JUHBDAGhGTyD9sDjDocYWo94SXLOnS=%2B2KzC@mail.gmail.com> <4D3C8037.6040406@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:23:35 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> 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
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