Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:13:05PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet may have written:
> > You need to learn how to listen.
>
> That's fair Theo.
>
> But to make it short. Before when at the disklabel part of the install, one
> could just type 'q' and it was then asked for the mount point of that actual
> unchanged partition as before and skip the 'm' steps if you want. Now you
> can't
> just type 'q' and do this, but needs to do 'm' for each partitions and keep
> the
> same size, offset, etc the same and provide then the mount point, then save,
> quit and keep going.
>
> If there is a way to skip these additional steps using 'm' on disk unchanged
> partition between install and just need to type 'q' as before and provide the
> needed mount points obviously, I would like to know how now?
>
> Doesn't appear to be possible anymore. Am I wrong?
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
Use 'n' instead of 'm' to provide the needed mount points.
With the old installer, while in the disk label editor, you could name
your mount points while creating (command 'a') or modifying (command 'm')
your partitions, or you could just name the mount points for existing
partitions without otherwise those partitions (command 'n').
After you finished the disk label editor, the old installer would then
prompt you to name your mount points. If you'd already named them in the
disk label editor, this was redundant. The new installer removes the
redundancy and requires that you name your mount points in the editor.
When you choose "C" for a custom layout, the installer shows you this:
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You will now create an OpenBSD disklabel inside the OpenBSD MBR
partition. The disklabel defines how OpenBSD splits up the MBR partition
into OpenBSD partitions in which filesystems and swap space are created.
You must provide each filesystem's mountpoint in this program.
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Note the last sentence.
Matt.
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