From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 00:59:08 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 DA4CA106566C; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:59:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE378FC16; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942D2582D4; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:40:29 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id 5dDj1Cmvr9wn; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:40:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (adsl-76-208-70-152.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [76.208.70.152]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42199582CB; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:40:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4E5D82FC.2020909@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:40:28 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: <4E5CEF79.7070508@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:59:08 -0000 On 08/30/11 19:07, Ivan Voras wrote: > 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. > Which partitioning scheme did you use? How did you lay out the partitions? -Nathan