Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:10:16 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdinstall partitioning Message-ID: <CADLo839oXt6cgS5mukWx7ZQLoSqiKH2UZMhfXoQh63LM%2B8idyA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E92127A.6050903@FreeBSD.org> References: <4E92127A.6050903@FreeBSD.org>
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On 9 October 2011 22:30, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I just had my first encounter with the new installer. I chose manual > partitioning, created a BSD disk (not GPT) with one swap and the rest for /. > Rest of the installation went fine but then my system didn't boot. I > repeated everything and I chose guided partitioning. This time it worked but > I think the manual way with BSD disk format should also work as it did in > sysinstall. Besides, the partition types (freebsd-ufs, freebsd-swap and > freebsd-boot) should be listed somehow or there should be radio buttons. If > you choose manual partition with GPT, only the first two are shown in the > description so one may not know that there is also a freebsd-boot type, > which is mandatory. > > Anyway, the rest of the installer and the configuration is very convenient > and I loved that I could configure my wifi connection w/o hand-editing the > config files, so thanks a lot to Nathan for the hard work! Wifi was the main thing I was pleased with too-- thanks from me. Chris
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