On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:47:26PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >+ Allow one to specify the partition letter, than assumeing `e'.
> >+ Allow one to specify the ordering of partitions that will be written.
> > Alpha users keep getting bit in the ass because sysinstall orders the
> > swap partition at the begining of the disk vs. after /. One cannot
> > tell which order the partitions will be written to disk.
>
> Hmm. Is it a different program on Alpha than i386?
Same.
> On i386, the
> order on the disk seems to always be the order they were created
> in disklabel (which might or might not match the order of the
> partition letters...).
Correct. The Alpha's root *must* be the first partition (starting at the
"begining" of the disk). People often know how much swap they want, and
take what is left for other things. So they allocate swap first.
Sysinstall's disk editor gives no feedback on how it is going to lay out
the disk. There have been numerious install failures reported to
freebsd-alpha@ because of this.
> On i386, I know know the program seems to want to futz with the
> partition letters based on the name you give to the partition, which
> is sometimes annoying.
Agreed.
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