bin/138025: sysinstall fails to create big partition

[Oliver Pinter]

The following reply was made to PR bin/138025; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr at gmail.com>
To: Boris Hollas <boris.hollas at gmx.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/138025: sysinstall fails to create big partition
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:26:00 +0200

 Hi Boris!
 
 "- 59 MB slice for FreeBSD" the MB sould be GB, I think it the problem.
 
 On 8/21/09, Boris Hollas <boris.hollas at gmx.de> wrote:
 >
 >>Number:         138025
 >>Category:       bin
 >>Synopsis:       sysinstall fails to create big partition
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       non-critical
 >>Priority:       low
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Quarter:
 >>Keywords:
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 21 11:20:06 UTC 2009
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Boris Hollas
 >>Release:        7.2
 >>Organization:
 >>Environment:
 > N/A (trying to install 7.2-R)
 >>Description:
 > While installing 7.2 with sysinstall, I used the disklabel editor to create
 > a
 >
 > - 59 MB slice for FreeBSD
 > - 2 GB swap partition
 > - 12 GB / partition
 > - 1.5 GB /var partition
 > - 42326 MB /home partition
 >
 > During the last step, sysinstall reported "unable to create partition. Too
 > big?"
 >
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 >
 >>Fix:
 > I was able to create the partition as desired after I rearranged the order
 > of creation. I created the / partitin first.
 >
 >>Release-Note:
 >>Audit-Trail:
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