On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Michael Powell wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote:
A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation
env (VB here) ?
If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install
options that are irrelevant/inappropriate ?
This is FreeBSD. It doesn't hold your hand and wipe the drool off your
chin. You're assumed to know what you're doing, and to be able to
configure your systems appropriately. And when you do know, and can
configure things, then it doesn't get in your way.
The installer doesn't know about all the various possible different
execution environments it might get used in. To do so would add a lot
of complexity for not very much gain to most users. Instead, it is
targeted at the most common installation scenario: direct installation
onto a PC with all the standard sort of capabilities. This should
produce a working system for the vast majority of use cases, but you may
need to go in and twiddle a few knobs and generally tune things up a bit
to get the very best results.
The converse may be applicable as well, that Vbox has configurability to
know a little something about the environment for the proposed guest. When
creating a new VM, you can choose BSD in the Operating System drop-down and
then choose FreeBSD or FreebSD-64. I've had no trouble installing the 9.1
Release disk1 CD into a Vbox VM (amd64 version). What I have not done is
tried all the various partitioning schemes available under "Manual" config.
Possibly one, such as Dos MBR or BSD disklabel which I have not tried, may
be broken boot-loading wise. I only went straight down the GPT road.
MBR works also. Which is to be expected, it's an emulated machine, and
isn't any more picky about boot blocks than physical hardware. Probably
less picky, really.
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