On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 16:12 -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > pc-sysinstall has been used as the PC-BSD installer for quite a while now, > and > has done a lot of installs on a lot of different hardware platforms. I'll > wager that the compatibility of the shell command gpart is a better bet than > the "stick your thumbs in you ears and yell nananana while you scribble 1's > and 0's to a disk and voila, there's a disklabel" approach that sysinstall > uses.
I wish that was true: unfortunately I tried and failed to create a ZFS installation with pc-sysinstall, and I get a few worrying error messages even with UFS while it repartitions the disk - people have been reporting it creating unbootable systems. gpart might be more compatible, but I don't think parsing the output of tools like as fdisk, diskinfo and dmesg is. The concerns about GPT, ZFS, gmirror etc. in sysinstall could all be resolved in a couple of days by ripping out the existing partitioning code and replacing it with ae@'s new version of sade from /user/ae/usr.sbin/sade . However since the future is pc-sysinstall I've now shifted my work to improving the Qt front-end. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
