From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 15 23:56:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1599216A85D for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 23:56:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidn@datalinktech.com.au) Received: from customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony8.iinet.net.au (customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony8.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A79E43D48 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 23:56:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidn@datalinktech.com.au) Received: from 203-206-162-119.perm.iinet.net.au (HELO mail.datalinktech.com.au) ([203.206.162.119]) by customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony8.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 16 May 2006 07:56:04 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.05,131,1146412800"; d="scan'208"; a="307682831:sNHT48532808" Received: from [192.168.4.232] ([192.168.4.232]) by mail.datalinktech.com.au with esmtp; Tue, 16 May 2006 09:56:01 +1000 id 0018D8D9.44691511.0000B0A8 Message-ID: <446914FD.9010502@datalinktech.com.au> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:55:41 +1000 From: David Nugent User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060406 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Turner References: <20060515150504.44b3a065.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <20060515143905.L38871@fledge.watson.org> <4468FCB5.2050103@fubar.geek.nz> In-Reply-To: <4468FCB5.2050103@fubar.geek.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:56:08 -0000 Andrew Turner wrote: >> etc. In these dialogs, the device names should also be specifically >> mentioned. Note that "Primary partition" is a confusing term -- I'm >> not sure what it means, actually :-). > > The primary partition is the partition to install FreeBSD on. This is > because the BSDInstaller can only install to one bsd slice currently. It would be best to avoid the term "primary" then, it is too ambiguous, use "install partition" instead. A "primary partition" would usually mean any 1 of the 4 partitions defined in the DOS partition table vs. an "extended" partition which is not.