Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
Tue Nov 10 23:23:42 UTC 2009
On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:51 AM, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Hello.
> I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on
> a barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now
> done via gpart and the limitation of having only 8 (-2) partitions
> from a through h except b and c is now obsoleted. When dropping into
> the installation process, I realised that the 8 partition boundary
> is still present.
sysinstall does not use gpart nor the kernel interface that GEOM_PART
exposes.
FYI,
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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
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