From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 11 17:43:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1532237B400; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipitythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA45854; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:43:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0C1hXt79841; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:43:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld Message-ID: <20010111174332.B74480@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org References: <20010111220021.C79365@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:38:55PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:38:55PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > Erm, sysinstall can be used as a replacement for fdisk and disklabel, > both of which are in /sbin. In fact, in 4.2 the only tool you can > realistically use to splat a virgin disklabel onto a slice w/o weird > hoop jumping that isn't documented _is_ sysinstall. disklabel should > have that fixed by 4.3, however. But disklabel/fdisk can't even accept MB's as a unit. Until they grow the functionality of the NetBSD and OpenBSD versions of them, sysinstall is really the only tolerable disk label manipulation tool our users have. This includes those with a bummed /usr that needs to install a new disk to get it back. On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:22:23PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Personally I would prefer it in src/usr.sbin/sysinstall and have it > dynamically linked. That would be OK, *once* our fdisk/disklable grows some modern [heck even late 1990's] user interface. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message