From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Aug 20 16:25:18 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C01DDDBA6 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:25:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927716A732 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:25:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 919A6DDDBA5; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911CADDDBA2 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:25:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from nm20-vm6.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm20-vm6.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.115.117]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49F246A731 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1503246204; bh=8IhO1vsB+OeL5JeW4AgYR2Krccr/PQAJRUVNqNGawCI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=IAFHsuoCk28tooERXk97tFGu98nF1ha/dveM6YhcYoCNJCqj/rhDHwoZZsms2vNdD6wYVo5gmSUGlePsqFKXbik4mKvdbiBz/3acZi5AKNAx0tRrNhDA5NHcBg9dLdWPD9dVNtrOXSGYioAVbzV76jXiWCeasrTQij6zktWO9HQ= Received: from [66.196.81.158] by nm20.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 16:23:24 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.156] by tm4.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 16:23:24 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp116.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 16:23:24 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 513757.66936.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: ANzwonIVM1nyfje2BOmJUIOYhnjVA1GJ9gUs18hY5dblbg3 BllWYzFVnB8QjQrxKEXXLNQB_5tiLqLwccnS2nyF.z3sI0jN7.cP2w_Fhe0B Wu_ZQIkV8DjjQN7cQc0gTbZLmSGjMn_E7slm12zQIcSHWyzg.x5ppkdmyXgv .AEKgTsvRZVcCEnyFdnNsjNwXsxVa9uuB8rjz_ioklKyA6dy6wtZhfVhavnV VL.c3q3qhsNkV.YUnTB4b4_Sn5z6C7gDg3qshVVWvUPegP8fqgYXEzP4P2_c bPBwFO87XliXo0p46g0e7_lqPWml_l3fcvJNJZbR_eXKxHDilQqdEsTUbOJd hPN9pNPkRokMVBF1qXL_qIKPZTZ0FLsBuBGP44aGiwafueX5bPDIqJms5HXI CdPwQn7ZM1e_Yg6Oj1gKb.O7679nwHFljajfYGy5hCKgHvBMkJI.dU9RVkRY yRHpgijZ37elLIL6koBQ.WbDiNmXseTpex8jNi0jihFY.MIxrMLBuv9gWF57 8v6lV1Q-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: pPvqnOaswBBbYZLVYFzvU7GaowLcbNioPp.aF8KvOjZk From: To: Manish Jain Cc: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: I went to install 11.1 yesterday Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:23:24 -0400 Message-ID: <9mdjpcdd1q710f42h1uhea560fkrhp96hk@4ax.com> References: <6b6jpchbfp3u3pfqsa034on2mqjc2s2im2@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:25:18 -0000 [Default] On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:09:13 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > > >On 08/20/17 19:57, scratch65535@att.net wrote: >> That's quite interesting! What led me to believe it is that, >> after installing windows, which required creating and formatting >> an MBR partition, I tried to install 11.1 on the rest of the >> disc. The first choice I was given was whole disc or partition. >> I chose partition, of course. Whereupon it told me that MBR >> isn't supported, and that I could either permit it to consume the >> whole disc (for GPT, though it didn't actually say that), or back >> up and choose differently. Functionally, the only choices on >> offer were whole disc or quit. I quit. >> > >Are you using UFS or ZFS for the root filesystem ? UFS. Not much point in choosing ZFS without copies= as a precondition. Or a spare drive for a mirror.