From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 07:22:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875E01065670 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:22:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lev@FreeBSD.org) Received: from onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru (onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru [IPv6:2a01:4f8:131:60a2::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2853B8FC08 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lion.home.serebryakov.spb.ru (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:923f:1:248b:b3cd:918d:d0d2]) (Authenticated sender: lev@serebryakov.spb.ru) by onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8D3214AC1C for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:22:34 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:22:29 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov Organization: FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <927966496.20110820112229@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: 9.0-BETA1 installer glithcies (i386) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lev@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:22:36 -0000 Hello, Freebsd-current. Maybe, everything is reported already, but I think, that better I'll be second, that no-one notice this: Manual partitioning chosen (1) Installer offer me bunch of Partition schemes, but only MBR and BSD have sense. Why i386 installer offer me PC98 or PowerPC-based Apple partition schemes?! Why it offer GPT when system doesn't have UFI BIOS? I could be wrong about GPT, but APT and PC98-based variants should be disabled even in "Manual mode," IMHO. (2) MBR Slice creation. Status line suggest "freebsd-ufs" and "freebsd-swap" as examples for "Type" field (which contains "freebsd" by default, but "freebsd-ufs" leads to "Error: Invalid argument" :) (3) "Auto" creates one big / partition + SWAP. It looks very not-BSD way (disk is only 8Gb, it is virtual machine). (4) Partition types again: IMHO, drop-down of filesystem types will be much better. It is not clear, is it possible to type "zfs" here, for example. (5) Partition creation dialog has button "Options", but modify dialog doesn't. (6) Partition editor main panel: (a) Inconsistent sizes display. "ada0" has size "8.0 GB" but "ada0s1" has size "8 GB". (b) No information about free size on device/slice. (7) Partition editor doesn't seen existing filesystems and doesn't warn about parititoning disks with existing filesystems. I have two (virtual) disks common for all my VMs -- with sources (one common disk per version) and with some scratch space (common for every my VM), FSes are created without any partitions or slices, directly on device nodes (ada1 and ada2). PArtition Editor doesn't have any sign or warning, that ada1 and ada2 contains valid FreeBSD filesystems. (8) After "Exit" from Partition Editor I expected some filesystem options selection (as here is no visible options on partition creation). NOPE. Also, it is impossible to set mount points for exisitng filesystems (see above about ada1 and ada2) (9) Lot of LORs on slice/partition creation and newfs. (10) Mistype password for Root for second type -- no message about it, simple "New password:" prompt. It is not obvious, what happens. (11) No way to mount NFS file systems :) --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov