On Wed, March 28, 2012 17:28, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> hail,
>
> I have some problems trying to install 9.0-BETA3 using a serial terminal. I 
> edited to have it boot
> using serial console, that was fine, but I can't get it to create the slices 
> the size I want. I
> say 1g to create a swap, and it puts there -56GB as size. Next I try to set 
> 4GB to /var, using 4g
> or 4GB, and it sets 1.5GB.
>
>  FreeBSD Installer
>  
> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>
>
>             
> ┌──────────────────Partition
> Editor────────────────────┐
>             │ Create partitions for FreeBSD. No changes will be    
> │
>             │ made until you select Finish.                        
> │
>             
> │┌────────────────────────────────────────────────^(-)┐│
>             ││  ada0s4      59 GB     BSD                         
> ││
>             ││    ada0s4a   2.0 GB    freebsd-ufs    /            
> ││
>             ││    ada0s4b   -56 GB    freebsd-swap   none         
> ││
>             ││    ada0s4d   1.5 GB    freebsd-ufs    /var         
> ││
>             ││da0           3.8 GB    GPT                         
> ││
>             ││  da0p1       64 kB     freebsd-boot                
> ││
>             ││  da0p2       535 MB    freebsd-ufs                 
> ││
>             ││                                                    
> ││
>             
> │└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘│
>             
> ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
>             &#9474;<Create> <Delete> <Modify> <Revert> < Auto > <Finish> 
> &#9474;
>             
> &#9492;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9496;
>
>
>
>  Add a new partition
>
> to add to this, I couldn't find where to say that I'd like that or this 
> partition to be formatted,
> and how to create labels to it.
>
> is this supposed to happen this way ? Am I doing something wrong ?
>
> thanks,
>
> matheus

as an update, when I deleted the slice and tried again, it worked fine. The 
partition table was
created using sysinstall from the same installation.

matheus

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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