Jonathan Thornburg wrote on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:53:55AM -0400:

> # - from the install disk, shell out before the install
> # - ed install.sub

Oops, yes, right, i completely forgot root is hardcoded to "a"
so this manipulation is needed.

In other words, this is not officially supported.
If it breaks for you, you keep the pieces!

> Important:  Don't try this unless you know what you're doing!
> Playing around with partitions this way works fine if you do things
> correctly, but mistakes can easily scramble your disk (more accurately,
> the data on it).  In particular, don't try this until you grok the
> FMs disklabel(8), fstab(5), and installboot(8/`arch`.

Right.
Thanks, Jonathan, for pointing that out!

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