From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 30 18:27:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA06554 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 18:27:28 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA02572 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 18:16:16 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA21296; Tue, 30 May 1995 18:16:15 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199505310116.SAA21296@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: [On the new Install] To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 18:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199505310046.RAA21178@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at May 30, 95 05:46:45 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1048 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > first impression: not bad at all. Thanks. > There is no way to get those last N blocks (not a whole 'cylinder') > into a slice (particularly the BSD slice, at least not without > doing mental arithmetic.. (once again prone to pilot error)). And you shoulnd't be able to, because next time we will get a wrong geometry guess if that is your only slice. > I have the impression that I may have had a hard time > if I'd wanted to do something a little less normal. > I still couldn't directly edit fdisk of disklabel entries which > is something I think is important for non-standard > installs.. I also didn't > see how one could do a 'partial re-install' > if one had a partly corrupted FS, and wanted to just download again, > without newfsing everything... There is a willdfully undocumented prototype "W"izard command on both the label and partition screens. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'