On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 08:42:05AM +0000, Roderick wrote: > > Please, delete the cc to b...@openbsd.org in any answer. > > I am now, after hours typing in the damned web console and dealing > with the buggy installer, a little bit furious. This is definitively > not the OpenBSD I know! > > I did manage to install OpenBSD in VMWare, with the "autopartition", but I > want a custom partition due to my spare resources. I will now do a pause to > calm myself and then continue trying. I appreciate any hint > and thank for it very much.
You must be doing something wrong. Since it installer surely leats you use a custom label. But since you are not showgin waht you did and you start insulting remarks, you won't get much help. > My remarks: > > (1) There no way to write a custom disklabel. After doing it, after giving the > command w and leaving with x, or after leaving with q, the installer > overwrites it with something arbitrary that may be unusable (then > one will note it no later than when loading the sets due to error > "cannot determine prefetch ...").OA see above > > (2) "disklabel -E" in cd65.iso puts a cpg=1 for all partitions: is that > correct? yes. The cpg field is used for some redundant fs metadata these days and will be filled in by newfs. > > (4) No way to leave the disklabel as it is. I wrote one with the shell > of cd65.iso (and cpg=1), also did nefwfs on the partitions, but > the installer do not show the partition it anywhere. One is compelled > to type again, and again comes the unusable arbitrary modification. see above > > (5) Auto allocaton puts partitions for X11 even if one selects > that one will run no X11. You can easily edit the auto label and delete partitions you do not want. > > (6) No vi in cd65.iso (but at least ed). > > Rodrigo >
