git: e37df024e090 - stable/13 - Clarify that scripted installations don't require specification of boot partitions, as there seems to be widespread confusion on this point.

[Nathan Whitehorn]

The branch stable/13 has been updated by nwhitehorn:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=e37df024e090daa1c3bf450b406cff4995f2401f

commit e37df024e090daa1c3bf450b406cff4995f2401f
Author:     Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-03-19 13:44:30 +0000
Commit:     Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-04-12 13:58:43 +0000

    Clarify that scripted installations don't require specification of boot
    partitions, as there seems to be widespread confusion on this point.
    
    MFC after:      1 day
    
    (cherry picked from commit e8b4c5a6226b6bde304380de51c347851680b7ed)
---
 usr.sbin/bsdinstall/bsdinstall.8 | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/bsdinstall.8 b/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/bsdinstall.8
index 8048e41669ee..ba261ce7301d 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/bsdinstall.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/bsdinstall.8
@@ -199,6 +199,10 @@ As an example, a typical invocation looks like:
 .Pp
 bsdinstall scriptedpart ada0 { 20G freebsd-ufs /, 4G freebsd-swap, 20G freebsd-ufs /var, auto freebsd-ufs /usr }
 .Pp
+Note that the list of partitions should
+.Em not
+include boot partitions (e.g. EFI system partitions), which will be created automatically on whatever disk includes /.
+.Pp
 A shorter invocation to use the default partitioning (as
 .Cm autopart
 would have used) on the same disk: