From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 14:15:03 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC1617E3; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x235.google.com (mail-wi0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F0E86D7; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id r20so1865166wiv.2 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 06:15:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=6qZF8CMcBkhrokIEbTZp/09Txgw3xyAfNXqiWt7/i3A=; b=wgk75Vv36zkcosDXr4wyn4pfLqHY8u7Zrern3t7RsUAJeuGi2zSPIjVwTvBk3GuZ8r 9UccHzreBljRA9QnIqPovKEAF+2ek+5fGGSyMxSzz8LQqhPSOaPDQb2JoMlBrUGOjJj/ QxzabmHyt5wSFBeXiXcfGvhRjPwnEjI6p+XhoV4EY93C+8rHONc+1AN2b9W7O5djT3xQ 184fgFisy/BkWuUOsg3kVtCuFVMTyI6gsqJSWcXYeFFq9I1+QbEky/KFHo1Z/gPgMgkf aqZ/MGxGGq+wbfDTwPFxI1DXCajk7MAdcxrRGNTTcBMqS+dHLPylYTwPBqdPBWlZwXoL wRoQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.83.98 with SMTP id p2mr6120302wiy.20.1416665701730; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 06:15:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.194.45.199 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 06:15:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <546F6D79.9060909@freebsd.org> References: <546F6D79.9060909@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:15:01 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dangerously dedicated mode with FreeBSD 10.1 From: Rostislav Krasny To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:15:03 -0000 On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > On 11/21/14 07:26, Warren Block wrote: >> If you are determined, it should be possible to select a bsdlabel-only >> format with the Manual partitioning option in the menus, or enter Shell mode >> on startup and create it with gpart or even bsdlabel. That said, I can't >> think of any advantages of using a bare bsdlable at all. With 10.1, GPT is >> available, supports large disks, and is easily alignable.* > > > Right, just select "BSD" as the partition type. Yes it works. Unfortunately disk partitioning of bsdinstall(8) isn't precise and isn't informative. Disk partitioning by sysinstall(8) was much better in this sense. With bsdinstall(8) I don't see how much disk space is left unpartitioned and where. Also I don't see where partitions start and what are their sizes in LBA units of measurement. By default bsdinstall(8) offers one huge partition for the root mount and a few hundreds of megabytes for swap partition after the root one. If don't like the offered partition sizes and want to create the same partitions manually (with slightly different sizes) I can't do it because of the precision flaw. Defining the root partitions in GB units with a size close to the whole disk size doesn't left any free space for the small swap partition. And if I create a swap partition before the root one I get an unbootable system. Another problem with bsdinstall(8) partitioning is an inability of using already partitioned disk. This is what I've tried first. In this case I was need to define the mount points of the existing partitions. It's easy to do (since I have a backup of my previous /etc/fstab) but then bsdinstall(8) didn't ask me if I want to re-format those partitions. Then the whole installation failed at the beginning of base.txz extracting (the first txz package). I'm almost sure it failed because it tried to extract the base.txz over existing filesystem of my previous FreeBSD 7.4 system.