Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 06:50:39 +0100 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Volker Paepcke <scratchy@vulcan.franken.de> Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Message-ID: <5997.804232239@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:28:30 %2B0200." <199506261828.UAA21470@vulcan.franken.de>
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> A probably better solution would be to let booteasy announce > partitions with sysid 164 as FreeBSD partitions too. After choosing > the boot partition the sysids on all FreeBSD partitions will be set to Hmmm. I think I'll let Serge comment on that.. :-) > BTW, the sysinstall procedure is VERY, VERY nice, although I'd like > some more "hacker" functions like labeling the disks step by step and > the possibility to recover a previously saved system (e.g. with dump) > from tape. To do this I only need to label the disk, run newfs and get > a /bin/sh to run restore manually to load the data from tape. I won't > need a fixit floppy anymore if I could do all this with one great boot > floppy :-) I do have features like that very much in mind! I don't know if I'll get "dump" on there, but I could at least let you restore from a (possibly multi-volume) tar tape. That wouldn't be too bad of an interim solution while I think about it some more. Maybe in 2.1! :) Thanks.. Jordan
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