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Subject: Issues in 9.0 installer
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I installed 9.0 in a VM in order to test some patches, and ran into
three issues with the installer:

1) I selected "guided partitioning", then deleted the / and swap
   partitions because I wanted more swap.  I did not delete the boot
   partition, but the wizard complained about there being none.  The
   first time, I answered yes to creating one, and ended up with two
   boot partitions, so I deleted and recreated everything, and got the
   same message again.  This time I ignored it, and the install went
   just fine; bsdinstall apparently found my boot partition and wrote
   the boot loader to it.

2) When I recreated the boot partition, I noticed that bsdinstall does
   not accept "64 kB" as a valid partition size.  I had to type "64KB".

3) I had the installer create a user for me, but it did not create my
   home directory, nor even /home.

Note that this is from BETA1 - I couldn't find a BETA3 iso online, but
bz had a BETA1 iso on his laptop.  I apologize if these issues have
already been found and fixed.

DES
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