Recently did a clean install of 9.0B1 into a 900gb VMware image.
1. The mount path shown on the screen gets truncated if it's longer than 8 characters. See /usr/ports on the image at http://www.fuzzwad.org/FreeBSD-9.0B1/fbsdinstall1.png It does mount correctly but it'd be more useful to see the whole path than all the blue background in this screen.
2. Creating a 4gb filesystem for /usr/ports does not generate enough inodes to untar ports.txz into. http://www.fuzzwad.org/FreeBSD-9.0B1/fbsdinstall2.png This may not be an installer issue per se, but does need to be addressed. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants separate filesystems for ports [and src and obj].
3. A minor nit... no screen image for this one so I hope my explanation suffices. From the screen shown in 1 above [and on a disk with some unallocated space :) ], press "C"reate. The top line says "freebsd-ufs" with the cursor on the "f", and you're in "insert mode". I either have to arrow out to the end of the line, then backspace; or type in what I want, then delete the rest. Two ways to make this more friendly. A] Place the cursor at the end of the line. B] Leave it at the beginning, but if anything but arrow keys are pressed [and you're at the beginning of the line], delete the text after the cursor.
-- Ron McDowell San Antonio TX _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
