On Jan 15, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/13/12 23:31, Ariane van der Steldt wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:50:14PM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>> On 01/13/12 19:16, [email protected] wrote: >>>> Old Synopsis: installer: using optional mount point field while >>>> partitioning results in error >>>> New Synopsis: bsdinstall(8): using optional mount point field while >>>> partitioning results in error >>>> >>>> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall >>>> Responsible-Changed-By: eadler >>>> Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jan 14 01:15:02 UTC 2012 >>>> Responsible-Changed-Why: >>>> assign and fix synopsis >>>> >>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164095 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sysinstall >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>> "[email protected]" >>>> Installer partition selection claims I must enter a mountpoint. >>>> Filling in the mountpoint tells me I must not enter a mountpoint. >>> >>> I can't reproduce this. Can you provide more details? >> Hi Nathan, >> >> You need another OS already installed on the disk already, in my case I >> reproduced by installing Windows XP in a 8GB partition on an 80GB disk. >> If you don't have another OS installed, the dialogs will not appear. >> >> Please see attached screenshots: >> - 01: the dialog that came up >> - 02: what I filled in >> - 03: the resulting error dialog > > You can't provide a mountpoint for nested partitions. Since that dialog has a > file type field, it can't conditionally remove the bottom line, which only > applies to FAT32 or freebsd-ufs or such partitions. I guess something about > this could be added to the existing help line, but it's already a little > long. At some point we're likely to do a rototill of the partition adding > dialog, and will make this a little clearer. For now, you have the error > dialog that says you should leave it blank. pc-sysinstall suffers from the same issue [with ZFS at least]. sade and sysinstall are the only tools I know of that did the right thing. Cheers, -Garrett_______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
