9-beta1 installer - partition editor

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 08/30/11 07:27, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Am I doing something wrong or the BETA1 installer cannot be used to 
> manually create the partition scheme?
>
> 1) it doesn't accept "freebsd-swap" as partition type ("invalid 
> argument")
> 2) it doesn't recognize that I have actually created a root (/) mount 
> point; since it doesn't show mountpoints maybe it forgets the input 
> from the dialog?
>
> The partition editor looks very rudimentary and feature-less. It 
> really should show "space left" on the drive.

It does show mountpoints, and of course does support swap partitions. 
You can use the partition editor to create quite complicated multi-disk 
partition layouts over a variety of schemes, and in that way it is 
wildly more featureful than what was in sysinstall.

Can you describe more what you were trying to do, in terms of what 
partition scheme you were using, etc.? The "invalid argument" is a 
message coming from the kernel, so something must be very wrong in your 
setup.
-Nathan