From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 15:11:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED556106566C; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26CD8FC14; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:11:11 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LQQ00604VEM2K00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:11:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (adsl-76-208-70-152.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [76.208.70.152]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LQQ005NOVEI9H00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:11:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:11:05 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: Ivan Voras Message-id: <4E5CEF79.7070508@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.208.70.152 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.8.30.135715, SenderIP=76.208.70.152 References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110827 Thunderbird/6.0 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:11:12 -0000 On 08/30/11 07:27, Ivan Voras wrote: > Am I doing something wrong or the BETA1 installer cannot be used to > manually create the partition scheme? > > 1) it doesn't accept "freebsd-swap" as partition type ("invalid > argument") > 2) it doesn't recognize that I have actually created a root (/) mount > point; since it doesn't show mountpoints maybe it forgets the input > from the dialog? > > The partition editor looks very rudimentary and feature-less. It > really should show "space left" on the drive. It does show mountpoints, and of course does support swap partitions. You can use the partition editor to create quite complicated multi-disk partition layouts over a variety of schemes, and in that way it is wildly more featureful than what was in sysinstall. Can you describe more what you were trying to do, in terms of what partition scheme you were using, etc.? The "invalid argument" is a message coming from the kernel, so something must be very wrong in your setup. -Nathan