9.0 Install and serial terminal

Wed Mar 28 20:29:03 UTC 2012

hail,

I have some problems trying to install 9.0-BETA3 using a serial terminal. I edited to have it boot
using serial console, that was fine, but I can't get it to create the slices the size I want. I
say 1g to create a swap, and it puts there -56GB as size. Next I try to set 4GB to /var, using 4g
or 4GB, and it sets 1.5GB.

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 Add a new partition

to add to this, I couldn't find where to say that I'd like that or this partition to be formatted,
and how to create labels to it.

is this supposed to happen this way ? Am I doing something wrong ?

thanks,

matheus

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