From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 10 23:23:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8D31065679 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:23:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org) Received: from ebb05.tieto.com (ebb05.tieto.com [131.207.168.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68518FC21 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from FIVLA-EXHUB02.eu.tieto.com ( [131.207.136.42]) (using TLS with cipher AES128-SHA (AES128-SHA/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ebb05.tieto.com (SMTP Mailer) with SMTP id E8.EC.02511.276E9FA4; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:17:22 +0200 (EET) Received: from Pickup by NLB-EXHUB.eu.tieto.com with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.176.0; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:17:15 +0000 X-AuditID: 83cfa824-b7c35ae0000009cf-9b-4af9e6726830 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed; delsp=yes From: Marcel Moolenaar In-Reply-To: <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:36:54 -0800 Message-ID: <32916A26-60CF-457A-9F61-67DB295A4D9C@mac.com> References: <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: "O. Hartmann" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1076) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Sender: Errors-To: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARGvaLg= Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:23:42 -0000 On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:51 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello. > I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on > a barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now > done via gpart and the limitation of having only 8 (-2) partitions > from a through h except b and c is now obsoleted. When dropping into > the installation process, I realised that the 8 partition boundary > is still present. sysinstall does not use gpart nor the kernel interface that GEOM_PART exposes. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"