From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 1:15:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A1C37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from K.J.Koster@kpn.com) Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:15:33 +0100 Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D73@l04.research.kpn.com> From: "Koster, K.J." To: "'freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" , Garance A Drosihn Cc: Bill Moran , Wes Peters Subject: RE: Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:15:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 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 ===================================================== You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Steven Wright] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message