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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2006 22:36:39 +0200
From:      Marius Nuennerich <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net>
To:        Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
Subject:   Re: BSDInstaller snapshot
Message-ID:  <20060516223639.0637dd0e@sol>
In-Reply-To: <20060516230400.5178bcdf.rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
References:  <20060515150504.44b3a065.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <4468FA1C.7040105@fubar.geek.nz> <20060516084310.05af8de4.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <20060516202529.1d725675@sol> <20060516230400.5178bcdf.rosti.bsd@gmail.com>

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On Tue, 16 May 2006 23:04:00 +0300
Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006 20:25:29 +0200
> Marius Nuennerich <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 May 2006 08:43:10 +0300
> > Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:01:00 +1200
> > > Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/16.png
> > > > >
> > > > > I think this menu should be changed, so one could select not only the
> > > > > slice size but also where it begins. Ideally this should be defined by
> > > > > three numbers: 'start sector', 'end sector' and 'size in sectors'.
> > > > > Changing the 'size in sectors' should also change the 'end sector', and
> > > > > changing 'start sector' or 'end sector' should also change the 'size in
> > > > > sectors', automatically.
> > > > >   
> > > > The start position is defined by the previous "partitions" (bsd slices) 
> > > > on the disk.
> > > > I would like to change it to accept size in MB, GB, TB, etc.
> > > 
> > > And if one wants to reserve some unallocated space at the beginning of
> > > the disk? I understand, you're trying to make partitioning a simple task
> > > but sometimes doing it by an advanced way may also be needed. One, who
> > > wants to partition the disk by the simple way, will use just the third
> > > number, i.e. the size (in sectors or in MB).
> > 
> > Why not just use 16 sectors offset like bsdlabel -w does?
> 
> What do you mean? I was talking about making BSD slices.

Sorry, I misread that.

I just noticed the bsdinstaller (just like sysinstall) creates no
offset for the first bsd partition in a slice, whereas bsdlabel -w
does.

regards
Marius



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