Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:23:09 -0500 From: Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: 9.0B1 Installer issues Message-ID: <4E5E5FED.7000305@fuzzwad.org>
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Recently did a clean install of 9.0B1 into a 900gb VMware image. 1. The mount path shown on the screen gets truncated if it's longer than 8 characters. See /usr/ports on the image at http://www.fuzzwad.org/FreeBSD-9.0B1/fbsdinstall1.png It does mount correctly but it'd be more useful to see the whole path than all the blue background in this screen. 2. Creating a 4gb filesystem for /usr/ports does not generate enough inodes to untar ports.txz into. http://www.fuzzwad.org/FreeBSD-9.0B1/fbsdinstall2.png This may not be an installer issue per se, but does need to be addressed. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants separate filesystems for ports [and src and obj]. 3. A minor nit... no screen image for this one so I hope my explanation suffices. From the screen shown in 1 above [and on a disk with some unallocated space :) ], press "C"reate. The top line says "freebsd-ufs" with the cursor on the "f", and you're in "insert mode". I either have to arrow out to the end of the line, then backspace; or type in what I want, then delete the rest. Two ways to make this more friendly. A] Place the cursor at the end of the line. B] Leave it at the beginning, but if anything but arrow keys are pressed [and you're at the beginning of the line], delete the text after the cursor. -- Ron McDowell San Antonio TX
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