From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Feb 14 19:59:54 2013
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040249F2;
 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:59:54 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com)
Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137])
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8590DA44;
 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:59:53 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by wonkity.com (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r1EJxqNL072319;
 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:59:52 -0700 (MST)
 (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com)
Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost)
 by wonkity.com (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) with ESMTP id r1EJxqKP072316;
 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:59:52 -0700 (MST)
 (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com)
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:59:52 -0700 (MST)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: dteske@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: about unatteneded installation
In-Reply-To: <08fe01ce0aed$477cef20$d676cd60$@freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302141257320.71109@wonkity.com>
References: <CAHzLAVEvGo-uB6NQm26N0friJvRZk+rS6Aj4dKwsv5oGnOu5Xw@mail.gmail.com>
 <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EA962E@ltcfiswmsgmb21>
 <CAHzLAVGAOvij566kWTz_3ZFRGTpQZ0BqYjrBHD67pC72arJdFw@mail.gmail.com>
 <08fe01ce0aed$477cef20$d676cd60$@freebsd.org>
User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7
 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:59:52 -0700 (MST)
Cc: 'Rick Miller' <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>,
 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:59:54 -0000

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, dteske@freebsd.org wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vrwmiller@gmail.com [mailto:vrwmiller@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rick
>> Miller
>> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:39 AM
>> To: Teske, Devin
>> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
>> Subject: Re: about unatteneded installation
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Teske, Devin
>> <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> 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?
>>
>
> As previously mentioned, the FreeBSD Druid for FreeBSD 9.x contains gpart in the
> mfsroot.
>
> To make this work under sysinstall, you'd essentially tell sysinstall to use
> what's "already there" (and by "already there", I mean have a script pre-create
> the partition layout with gpart prior to installation).

Yes, but neither fdisk(8) nor gpart(8) can align slices to arbitrary 
(aligned) locations.  They will always be aligned to CHS values, 
equivalent to using -a63 in gpart.  gpart(8) can align FreeBSD 
partitions inside a slice, though.