Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:43:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com> To: current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld Message-ID: <20010111174332.B74480@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010111143855.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:38:55PM -0800 References: <20010111220021.C79365@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <XFMail.010111143855.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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