Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:15:30 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: "'freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Subject: RE: Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D73@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Dear All,
>
> 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.
>
I've submitted a rather feeble patch (PR alpha/23064) that makes sysinstall
whine when someone is found aiming at his/her foot. If someone would be so
kind as to review/submit this patch.
Kees Jan
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
[Steven Wright]
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