BSDInstall ISO images
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Jan 10 13:00:20 UTC 2011
On 01/08/2011 20:00, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:54:42 -0600
> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I would appreciate any comments or test results.
> Trying to create a 200GB freebsd partition in an MBR or BSD scheme on a
> 200GB disk results in the message "Invalid argument. size
> '419430400'" - it looks like it's trying to create a partition
> slightly too big, because 198GB works. Trying to delete a partition
> results in the message "Device busy". Trying to revert also results in
> an error message, but the revert does happen despite text messages
> overwriting the ncurses window.
>
> The only other thing I noticed is that some of the windows look a bit
> small so there's just one word per line.
That raises the question: The computer industry has given in and
generally says 'G' mean 10^9 not 2^30. The latter is what Gi means.
While bletcherous to my eye, I think we should consider adopting this
standard at some point.
Warner
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