Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:07:40 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor Message-ID: <j3ju0s$kuo$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4E5CEF79.7070508@freebsd.org> References: <j3ikuq$ec1$1@dough.gmane.org> <4E5CEF79.7070508@freebsd.org>
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On 30.8.2011. 16:11, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 08/30/11 07:27, 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")
>> 2) it doesn't recognize that I have actually created a root (/) mount
>> point; since it doesn't show mountpoints maybe it forgets the input
>> from the dialog?
>>
>> The partition editor looks very rudimentary and feature-less. It
>> really should show "space left" on the drive.
>
> It does show mountpoints, and of course does support swap partitions.
> You can use the partition editor to create quite complicated multi-disk
> partition layouts over a variety of schemes, and in that way it is
> wildly more featureful than what was in sysinstall.
>
> Can you describe more what you were trying to do, in terms of what
> partition scheme you were using, etc.? The "invalid argument" is a
> message coming from the kernel, so something must be very wrong in your
> setup.
It was a plain install on a RAID volume which appears as ordinary da0
drive. I did do a couple of start-overs so it could be that some state
got lost. It definitely did NOT show mount points in the dialog which
lists newly created partitions.
I'm sure you've looked around but just in case you missed it, here's how
Ubuntu's text-mode installer looks like (note its partition editor):
http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-lamp-server-installation-with-screenshots.html
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