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Date:      Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:36:54 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?
Message-ID:  <32916A26-60CF-457A-9F61-67DB295A4D9C@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:51 AM, O. Hartmann wrote:

> Hello.
> I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on  
> a barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now  
> done via gpart and the limitation of having only 8 (-2) partitions  
> from a through h except b and c is now obsoleted. When dropping into  
> the installation process, I realised that the 8 partition boundary  
> is still present.

sysinstall does not use gpart nor the kernel interface that GEOM_PART
exposes.
FYI,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com






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