Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 18:16:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [On the new Install] Message-ID: <199505310116.SAA21296@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199505310046.RAA21178@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at May 30, 95 05:46:45 pm
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> 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 <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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