I tried to use the LiveCD installer to install on a 2 TB Seagate ST2000DM001 in 
an N40L.  This is intended to be a headless server, but I'd like to have 
multiple terminal windows when I configure or need to do other work on the 
system.

I'd run format(1m) and put an SMI label on the drive w/ s0 & S1 defined as I 
want them:

s0 128 GB for rpool
S1 1.69 TB for RAIDZ pool

The installer rather unhelpfully refused to allow me to select s0 and insisted 
on clobbering the label.

So I switched to the text installer disk.  That let me do what I wanted, but 
doesn't provide an Xserver and other things I'd like to have there 

I'm not trying to do anything complex, so it boggles my mind that the GUI 
installer doesn't see the label and at least offer to let me use it.  I can 
understand why the text installer doesn't include X.

So far as I can tell, my choices are either a full manual install along the 
lines of Jim Klimov's instructions or doing a GUI install to another disk and 
then migrating everything to where I want it.

Both options seem rather ridiculously cumbersome for what I want to do.  Is 
there something simpler that I've missed?

Thanks,
Reg


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