9-beta1 installer - partition editor

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 31 10:16:29 UTC 2011


On 31/08/2011 08:42, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> On 30.08.2011 16:27, 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")
>
> Not all partitioning schemes supports "freebsd-swap" partition type.
> E.g. MBR does not support it.

This could very well be the cause of my problems! The dialog should 
definitely not include suggestions to create "freebsd-swap" partitions 
if the partitioning scheme does not support it.



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