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Date:      Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:16:13 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor
Message-ID:  <j3l1ld$3s6$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E5DD7E3.8020200@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <j3ikuq$ec1$1@dough.gmane.org> <4E5DD7E3.8020200@FreeBSD.org>

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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.




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