From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 00:31:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A4E1065672; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:31:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3517A8FC0A; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadk27 with SMTP id k27so8129093iad.13 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:31:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=aSxDZdpQ+bTt2nfJ8PW5OdtmEGvaFxV7cukscZz8FKI=; b=otqo8H1fawVjh88f8VyYT3vf5tR5xTVrPSdL9r08sbhZcMGkoSdoAc+H+BKGpRdwUA maY7qgp2Jv6+xDWKUDK2ajxozRK0+UrM5XdM1aPdGb73K25C9u5vXfu0rkQJF4bRoiV4 JsjnrKYa/KoYQd+QCR9QUKAiL4SflFXSvIwFw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.82.131 with SMTP id b3mr9147296ibl.74.1317083468428; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.36.69 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:31:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201109260053.SAA25795@lariat.net> <201109260927.02540.jhb@freebsd.org> <201109262035.OAA17199@lariat.net> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:31:08 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk , Arnaud Lacombe Subject: Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:31:09 -0000 On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > .. I do FreeBSD installs on 1GB flash disks. You know, so I don't have > to nuke the windows install. Just so I can test out things. :) > > If people would like to see a more detailed partition editor, please > supply patches to bsdinstall to do so. :-) > I'd love to have multiple options - "use all for one partition", "do > sysinstall-style auto partitioning". > This is much more fun with GPT partitions where there's no 6 slice limit, right? MBR has a 4 slice limit. 6 would have been very nice! GPT allows 256 partitions. Whee! My current system disk has 7 real partitions. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com