From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 00:08:09 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 62C70106564A for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:08:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1E08FC13 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QyYLf-0001w9-13 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:08:07 +0200 Received: from cpe-188-129-116-21.dynamic.amis.hr ([188.129.116.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:08:07 +0200 Received: from ivoras by cpe-188-129-116-21.dynamic.amis.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:08:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:07:40 +0200 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <4E5CEF79.7070508@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-188-129-116-21.dynamic.amis.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <4E5CEF79.7070508@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: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:08:09 -0000 On 30.8.2011. 16:11, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > 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. It was a plain install on a RAID volume which appears as ordinary da0 drive. I did do a couple of start-overs so it could be that some state got lost. It definitely did NOT show mount points in the dialog which lists newly created partitions. I'm sure you've looked around but just in case you missed it, here's how Ubuntu's text-mode installer looks like (note its partition editor): http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-lamp-server-installation-with-screenshots.html