Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:46 AM, eculp <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:

> That makes two of us right now.  I gave up, accepted the automatic
> partition and everything else went as expected, I suppose.  The disk results
> are:
>
> # df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ada0p2 941441086 2150880 863974920     0%    /
> devfs               1       1         0   100%    /dev
>
> In my world from the beginning of commercial unix, I have never had a one
> partition disk.  I'm not sure if it is that bad with today's, controllers,
> drives, drivers, etc.  I hope someone chimes in with a "I see no major
> problems with gpt."
>
> My major problem was editing the automatic swap that was set at 4G and the
> menu would not let me change the 4G.  The experienced option would not
> accept a blank value as swap even though there was message that said it
> would.
>
> I feel like a real idiot and am beginning to believe that it might be true.
> The rest of the install was brain dead.  It was possibly a bit simpler than
> the previous.  Less decisions ;)
>
> I had the idea the following were available in the new installer.
>  1.  Raid configuration
>  2.  ZFS
>  3.  Regular everyday simple disk partitioning as before.
>
> I wasn't able to find any functional option except the one mentioned above.
>
> Now, I have to accept this single partition or upgrade sources to date,
> build a release and reinstall but I don't know if the problem has been
> fixed.  I'll probably give it a try.  It isn't that much of a deal.
>

Hopefully I add something of value to this thread, but as a workaround you
can use a PCBSD image and installer to install/partion plain vanilla FreeBSD
with the options you mentioned earlier in a graphical enviroment.



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Adam Vande More