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Date:      Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:18:26 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sysinstall replacement
Message-ID:  <f40ld8$qh9$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070604055757.GA2379@nowhere>
References:  <4662016A.8070100@mail.ru> <f3vfp5$u5r$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070604055757.GA2379@nowhere>

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Craig Boston wrote:

> I also don't think that ext2 should be offered in the installer, as
> there have been periodic stability problems with it, and new users
> accustomed to Linux may pick it out of habit and get bitten.

I advocate the opposite view: if it doesn't get exposition, it won't be=20
fixed.

> P.S. I pretty much never use sysinstall anymore, preferring to set up
> things as gjournal and geli using Fixit mode, then just extract the
> tarballs into the new filesystems.  Having a good standalone
> partitioning tool would be nice though, as doing all the math by hand
> can be tedious.  Any chance that the module that handles that could be
> set up so it's possible to use it independently?

I'll write the backend, if anyone wants to do the frontend, he's welcome =

to it.


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