Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:46:09 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ? "sysinstall" errors labeling a new disk Message-ID: <24565.872185569@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:32:01 EDT." <19970821133201.41713@ct.picker.com>
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> I'll put in my vote for sysinstall (or sysinstall-like) TUI/GUI tool that > does this. Really, until I hit this little sysinstall bug, I thought this Ultimately, someone just needs to hack on the disklabel and fdisk programs (and even if it involves a total rewrite of those tools) so that they're more "drivable" from scripts - Terry has an entire interaction model for tools to do this which I'm sure he'd be happy to share with anyone thinking of doing that work. :-) Even if one doesn't go for a full-blown Terry model, it'd still be possible to hack fdisk and disklabel significantly in ways which would make them much friendlier to "front-ending", perhaps enough so that some other perl hacker can come along and provide you a CGI script which enables one to partition and label a disk from one's HTML browser! :-) OK, so I was just kidding about the CGI thing (primarily because of the security issues involved - who wants their httpd running as root?) but it'd still make it possible to whip up some much more friendly disk management front-ends than the "interactive modes" provided by the current disklabel and fdisk programs. Jordan
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