On 12/29/11 14:04, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:55:10 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> On 12/29/11 10:52, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote: >>>> A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, >>>> etc.) >>>> rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string >>>> would be >>>> one improvement. >>> There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=bsdinstall >> The problem with, say, a dropdown menu is that libdialog doesn't provide >> a combination dropdown-and-text-entry window. The only alternative would >> be to split partition creation into two screens (first a list of types, >> and later a thing to set it up). That has the disadvantage of requiring >> two screens, or a third if you want alternate types. > sysinstall just popped up a new modal dialog with a menu to pick the partition > type. Would something like that work in bsdinstall? > It would. I was hoping to avoid extra dialogs and keystrokes, but it's easy to do. -NathanReceived on Sat Dec 31 2011 - 01:24:03 UTC
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