From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 18:38:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED77D4C for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vrwmiller@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x235.google.com (ie-in-x0235.1e100.net [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CD3688 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:38:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f181.google.com with SMTP id 17so3621506iea.40 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:38:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=i5D5RuwVlQNBCGQjw8yh6rE9TaKmwFZ4tlPZ9y4VJ0g=; b=zH5XoypuqcOusCZ0Q9aMAuvcNfQ2IcbIbNnG9fzFlVxO6STAdPIXcIivp/ivtZBsLE xXGwBASkIJXdKcwcWtPa/0lQaKis8bmRwfkSllUIBj0j2ouJHsjXqqwakz3WMk2vZ345 73WL9zrUNMhT0rmKW5LiQe8exBSHLYeldviWaoonHTLA1e7C/ASCWhRruZtd/G6RR3/t r1pKS6FWVJCzgg0emhmwFl54KDt0OYAh/euH9rrDjtaNf4dgv2m8NRySq17e4neVtDuJ zFzNClfR7migiESKKpc4fTgGmQiLWJ3DZ0RlxloudLKqBeNusce6UFZaAf8Tz5xTwxmk Bf4g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.91.7 with SMTP id n7mr35632265icm.40.1360867135802; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:38:55 -0800 (PST) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.71.2 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:38:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EA962E@ltcfiswmsgmb21> References: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EA962E@ltcfiswmsgmb21> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:38:55 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: eWc5LSFvLddkio7RJKDODr8J8Wc Message-ID: Subject: Re: about unatteneded installation From: Rick Miller To: "Teske, Devin" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:38:56 -0000 On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Rick Miller wrote: > > No worries on time lapse. In fact, I had been needing to get back to you on assuaging those 4 failed > patch hunks on your sysinstall work. > > FreeBSD Druid (both 8.x and 9.x) use sysinstall for disk partitioning. What does sysinstall use, you say? > Glad you asked. sysinstall(8) uses a combination of: I anticipated this. I am under the impression one cannot force proper slice alignment on 4K sector drives with sysinstall (see http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2011-01-01.freebsd-on-4k-sector-drives.html). Is it safe to assume that this also applies to 9.x when utilizing sysinstall based installer? -- Take care Rick Miller