9.0B1 Installer issues

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 17:49:15 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Ron McDowell <rcm at fuzzwad.org> wrote:
> Recently did a clean install of 9.0B1 into a 900gb VMware image.

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> 3.  A minor nit... no screen image for this one so I hope my explanation
> suffices.  From the screen shown in 1 above [and on a disk with some
> unallocated space :) ], press "C"reate.  The top line says "freebsd-ufs"
> with the cursor on the "f", and you're in "insert mode".  I either have to
> arrow out to the end of the line, then backspace; or type in what I want,
> then delete the rest.  Two ways to make this more friendly. A] Place the
> cursor at the end of the line. B] Leave it at the beginning, but if anything
> but arrow keys are pressed [and you're at the beginning of the line], delete
> the text after the cursor.

This is an issue with the new libdialog. I agree and I already noted
this to Nathan and the upstream maintainer.
-Garrett


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