From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 19 5:29: 3 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDE137B404; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f0JDSNo05248; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:28:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:28:23 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Valentin Nechayev , John Baldwin , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile Message-ID: <20010119052823.A7240@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200101191301.PAQ80768@burka.carrier.kiev.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:17:56PM +0100 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Dag-Erling Smorgrav [010119 05:18] wrote: > netch@carrier.kiev.ua (Valentin Nechayev) writes: > > sysinstall is extremely valuable to fix system in cases when it is damaged. > > Not really. Except for beginning users, I don't see a use for > sysinstall once installation is complete. I usually try to be manly and use fdisk+disklabel+newfs to setup a new disk, lately I've been more successful at it, but it sure is a lot less fun that just getting it done in under a minute with sysinstall. It's too bad that sysinstall's diskeditor isn't a standalone program. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message