On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, [email protected] wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick
Miller
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:39 AM
To: Teske, Devin
Cc: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Re: about unatteneded installation
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Teske, Devin
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Rick Miller wrote:
No worries on time lapse. In fact, I had been needing to get back to you on
assuaging those 4 failed
patch hunks on your sysinstall work.
FreeBSD Druid (both 8.x and 9.x) use sysinstall for disk partitioning. What
does
sysinstall use, you say?
Glad you asked. sysinstall(8) uses a combination of:
I anticipated this. I am under the impression one cannot force proper
slice alignment on 4K sector drives with sysinstall (see
http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2011-01-01.freebsd-on-4k-sector-drives.html).
Is it safe to assume that this also applies to 9.x when utilizing
sysinstall based installer?
As previously mentioned, the FreeBSD Druid for FreeBSD 9.x contains gpart in the
mfsroot.
To make this work under sysinstall, you'd essentially tell sysinstall to use
what's "already there" (and by "already there", I mean have a script pre-create
the partition layout with gpart prior to installation).
Yes, but neither fdisk(8) nor gpart(8) can align slices to arbitrary
(aligned) locations. They will always be aligned to CHS values,
equivalent to using -a63 in gpart. gpart(8) can align FreeBSD
partitions inside a slice, though.
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