From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 18:10:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD453106566B; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:10:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4800C8FC12; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggeq3 with SMTP id q3so7485536gge.13 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:10:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=vC+FmIomAjNefsKSnwN2lATe8WG4lmP+NB3N3yijR9o=; b=iJR15oLWvr3KT5h5wKb0jJXiqkoNSLuTnhXWJdb+LVfZBg2Rtcb2JxC36XKmOx9a9o uwp0l4np73PnDvibWEHL5FGXBX3UiAgO5VkzyIE/fcmkt1QsH513ptUc0C2sYr9ue7Zp iqY0rfU7/N86A84xQ7qKxSGi6X0Mhthhh6m5c= Received: by 10.42.158.136 with SMTP id h8mr6582368icx.22.1318356646109; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:10:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.12.11 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:10:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E92127A.6050903@FreeBSD.org> References: <4E92127A.6050903@FreeBSD.org> From: Chris Rees Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:10:16 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cm2CUhAzFTIiMh8K1CrEtPt3L28 Message-ID: To: Gabor Kovesdan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdinstall partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:10:47 -0000 On 9 October 2011 22:30, Gabor Kovesdan 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