On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:46 AM, eculp <eculp_at_encontacto.net> wrote: > That makes two of us right now. I gave up, accepted the automatic > partition and everything else went as expected, I suppose. The disk results > are: > > # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ada0p2 941441086 2150880 863974920 0% / > devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev > > In my world from the beginning of commercial unix, I have never had a one > partition disk. I'm not sure if it is that bad with today's, controllers, > drives, drivers, etc. I hope someone chimes in with a "I see no major > problems with gpt." > > My major problem was editing the automatic swap that was set at 4G and the > menu would not let me change the 4G. The experienced option would not > accept a blank value as swap even though there was message that said it > would. > > I feel like a real idiot and am beginning to believe that it might be true. > The rest of the install was brain dead. It was possibly a bit simpler than > the previous. Less decisions ;) > > I had the idea the following were available in the new installer. > 1. Raid configuration > 2. ZFS > 3. Regular everyday simple disk partitioning as before. > > I wasn't able to find any functional option except the one mentioned above. > > Now, I have to accept this single partition or upgrade sources to date, > build a release and reinstall but I don't know if the problem has been > fixed. I'll probably give it a try. It isn't that much of a deal. > Hopefully I add something of value to this thread, but as a workaround you can use a PCBSD image and installer to install/partion plain vanilla FreeBSD with the options you mentioned earlier in a graphical enviroment. -- Adam Vande MoreReceived on Mon Jul 25 2011 - 15:23:14 UTC
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