9-beta1 installer - partition editor

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 09/12/11 14:13, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Unfortunately, I continue to have problems with the partitioner part of
> the installer in the BETA2 image. See the (unchanged) problem
> screenshots here:
>
> http://ivoras.imgur.com/freebsd_installer_2
>
> See also the screenshots of the entire process here (on BETA1):
>
> http://ivoras.imgur.com/installer__partitioner
>
> I am no longer trying to create a swap partition but still:
>
> 1) I cannot proceed without specifying a root partition
> 2) I cannot specify the root partition (the dialog ignores it).
>
> If this doesn't get solved, it makes FreeBSD uninstallable in this case.
> There may be some kind of interference between the existing MBR scheme
> and the operations that the installer attempts to do.
>

This was resolved earlier -- you cannot install onto just MBR without a 
bsdlabel. This has never been supported, and worked only by accident 
before. *As it tells you* you need to create sub-partitions.
-Nathan