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

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, martin%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)
Subject: re: install/54745: Sysinst generates strange i386 partition table
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 08:50:18 +1100

 >  >    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 dis=
 klabel
 >  partition names at all (besides both being ordered by start sector).
 
 this is confusing, because we're used to disklabels matching
 the menu labels.
 
 can we use number labels here?
 
 
 .mrg.