From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Nov 13 05:41:15 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09D2C3EB97 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 05:41:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [IPv6:2607:f678:1010::34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA06C12FD for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 05:41:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id uAD5fCJZ002223 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.14.2/Submit) with UUCP id uAD5fB38002222 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:41:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from fbsd81 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA14785; Sat, 12 Nov 16 21:09:39 PST Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:09:33 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 10.3 installer not working Message-Id: <5827f58d.sMOy7X/BSRg0Z40v%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 05:41:16 -0000 How do I get the 10.3 installer to allow me to: * Edit the default partition sizes, without having to delete and re-create them. I finally figured out how to get into the details part of the screen after selecting Modify -- it's not obvious, and there doesn't seem to be any help available -- but the partition size seems to be immutable. (I want to make the swap partition larger than the default, and the root partition correspondingly smaller.) * Start the partition editor with the existing disk layout. Having once gotten through the hell of getting the disk partitioned the way I want it, only to have the installation fail later on, I see no reason to have to repeat the partitioning step. Where is the option to read the existing partition sizes into the editor? * Ignore a minor error and continue. It complained that it could not extract the timestamp of some file -- I don't remember which one, and it doesn't matter -- and then the only choices provided were to start over or exit. That is not reasonable.