Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 19:01:46 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <199511210301.TAA12703@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:01:55 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951120150007.1247B-100000@hub.org>
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>>> "Marc G. Fournier" said: > On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > > > > > Actually, the user interface itself is perfect, if it wasn't > > > hidden inside the Installation interface, and required you to commit > > > to an install in order for it to add your drive... > > > > Yes, that's the way I'd do it too. It doesn't seem to be too much > > trouble to tear the disk stuff out and make a standalone program that > > didn't also try to install software on it. > > > > > ...and, as to "what everybody else is using"...as you mention > > > below...how many ppl know about the "wizard" mode that is in 2.0.5's > > > sysinstall? I found out about it in IRC last night, chatting with > > > Gary and a few others... > > > > Well, I still don't know what it is. Anybody care to tell us, or do > > you have to be a wizard for that? > > Since its not required in 2.1, its kind of useless to advertise > the feature. The main problem...it basically puts you into "raw" mode > in relation to your drive, so, if, like with fdisk/disklabel, you really > know what you are doing with your drive, then you are fine...but if that > is the case, fdisk/disklabel will work for you too :) fdisk/disklabel Pretty lame if you ask me -- perhaps we should required FreeBSD to be booted by IBM Punch Cards.... Amancio
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