Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:32:16 +0200 From: CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: 9.1RC2 bsdinstall partitioning ambiguous Message-ID: <CAFYkXjmq9H4LdYY6MUckK0-EzmWkyRZdXK0q-R=1edMs-ZJDPg@mail.gmail.com>
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--e0cb4efa6ed8da311f04cbcbf360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello :-) I have taken a look at bsdinstall in the 9.1RC2, and I noted some issues with the partitioning dialogs: 1. It is possible to create a partition with selected type size and mountpoint but for freebsd the mountpoint should not be specified, if so the field should be grayed out or invisible. 2. Parition type field is amboguous, it would be nice to have some kind of drop down list, or at least list of choices to type in. What types are supported? What types are not supported?? I have tried linux/etxt2 but none of that works. What is the goal of this partitioning utility? Does it only create partitions? From what I notices it can only delete existing partitions and create freebsd partitions... Does it also format created partitions? Please give more work to this tool because this is the first contact with the system and lots of people can say "its even worse than linux 15 years ago, i will not use freebsd". For clean machine install this might be okay but to install on desktop this way its a nightmare even worse than old sysinstall way, sorry to say that :\ 3. How to create swap partition/slice - "swap" type gives "invalid argument" error. 4. Please distinguish Partition and Slice. Best regards :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info --e0cb4efa6ed8da311f04cbcbf360--
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