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Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, etc.)
> rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string would be
> one improvement.

There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=bsdinstall