From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 10:16:29 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 AE17E1065673 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:16:29 +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 230978FC17 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:16:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QyhqL-0000e9-8J for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:16:25 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:16:25 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:16:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:16:13 +0200 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <4E5DD7E3.8020200@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101102 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: <4E5DD7E3.8020200@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 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 10:16:29 -0000 On 31/08/2011 08:42, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 30.08.2011 16:27, 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") > > Not all partitioning schemes supports "freebsd-swap" partition type. > E.g. MBR does not support it. This could very well be the cause of my problems! The dialog should definitely not include suggestions to create "freebsd-swap" partitions if the partitioning scheme does not support it.