Dear All,
>
> 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.
>
I've submitted a rather feeble patch (PR alpha/23064) that makes sysinstall
whine when someone is found aiming at his/her foot. If someone would be so
kind as to review/submit this patch.
Kees Jan
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
[Steven Wright]
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