From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 11:35:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B439237B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:35:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6BIYrF64110; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:34:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:34:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Bill Moran , Wes Peters , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel Message-ID: <20010711113453.A63964@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <3B4A7D9C.A64230D9@softweyr.com> <3B4B07DE.4801D208@iowna.com> <3B4B65ED.452CDD5E@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:47:26PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:47:26PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >+ Allow one to specify the partition letter, than assumeing `e'. > >+ Allow one to specify the ordering of partitions that will be written. > > Alpha users keep getting bit in the ass because sysinstall orders the > > swap partition at the begining of the disk vs. after /. One cannot > > tell which order the partitions will be written to disk. > > Hmm. Is it a different program on Alpha than i386? Same. > On i386, the > order on the disk seems to always be the order they were created > in disklabel (which might or might not match the order of the > partition letters...). Correct. The Alpha's root *must* be the first partition (starting at the "begining" of the disk). People often know how much swap they want, and take what is left for other things. So they allocate swap first. Sysinstall's disk editor gives no feedback on how it is going to lay out the disk. There have been numerious install failures reported to freebsd-alpha@ because of this. > On i386, I know know the program seems to want to futz with the > partition letters based on the name you give to the partition, which > is sometimes annoying. Agreed. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message