Install problems for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Thanks to yesterday's suggestion by Antonio Huete Jimenez
<tuxillo at quantumachine.net> to try formatting the disk multiple times
during the DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 installation process, I was able to
install it without difficulty in a virtual machine on my home
workstation last night, and it came up with the correct disk size this
time.  

I then installed a large of packages on it, and this morning, copied
the disk image to a campus machine, successfully booted, changed its
hostname and IPv4 address, and rebooted.

I now have two working DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 VMs: I need both, because a
security wall around our campus prevents in-bound access from outside
campus, and I do software development in both places.

I hope that the DragonFlyBSD installer team can compare the 6.4.0 and
6.4.1 installers, and figure out why the new version fails to get the
correct disk size on the first try.  I have done more than 800 VM
installations by now, and this is the first time that I can recall
where an installer got the disk size wrong.

Also, I'd like to request consideration of some (I hope) simple
changes in the installer:

(1) Many users will have IPv4 address w.x.y.z, where only the last
    octet changes in their enviroment.  It would be nice if the
    installer portion where a manual IPv4 configuration is done to
    offer w.x.y.1 as defaults for the router and gateway addresses,
    and 255.255.255.0 as the default network mask.  I have used
    installers for other O/Ses that do just that.  Numeric addresses
    are easy to make typing mistakes in, and providing sensible
    defaults is most helpful.  Typos in those addresses result in loss
    of the network, and can sometimes be hard to spot.

(2) During the manual IPv4 configuration, it asks for the bare
    hostname and domain, and then later in the main configuration
    menu, it wants them again.  Surely the first set could be
    propagated as the default to the second set?

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