Re: install/54745: Sysinst generates strange i386 partition table

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/54745; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/54745: Sysinst generates strange i386 partition table
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 17:42:59 +0100

 On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 03:20:01PM +0000, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
 > because there is no swap partition, the NetBSD portion of the
 > disk is called "b" rather than "c", and the whole disk is called
 > "c" rather than "d":
 > 
 >    We now have your disklabel partitions for wd1 below.  This is your last 
 >    chance to change them. 
 > 
 >    Flags: (N)ewfs.  Total size: 75G, free: 128M
 > 
 >         Start (MB)     End (MB)    Size (MB)  FS type Flag Filesystem
 >       ------------ ------------ ------------ -------- ---- ----------------
 >    a:        76294       152459        76166    FFSv2 N    /
 >    b:        76294       152587        76294 NetBSD partition
 >    c:            0       238474       238475 Whole disk
 >       ------------ ------------ ------------ -------- ---- ----------------
 
 The a: / b: / c: are just menu labels, they do not correlate to the disklabel
 partition names at all (besides both being ordered by start sector).
 
 The concept of a single letter partition name does not extend well beyound
 disklabel, so it would be a bit tricky to change this for very little gain
 (IMHO).
 
 Is there anything wrong with the actual created disklabel afterwards?
 
 Martin