From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 16:23:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7970106564A for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcm@fuzzwad.org) Received: from mail.volente.us (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:7:d47::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE5E8FC0C for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zombie.fuzzwad.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.volente.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7VGNA9I031964 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:23:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rcm@fuzzwad.org) Message-ID: <4E5E5FED.7000305@fuzzwad.org> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:23:09 -0500 From: Ron McDowell User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 9.0B1 Installer issues 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: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:11 -0000 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