Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 21:10:06 -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: <199511210510.VAA00739@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:08:24 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951120220254.8172A-100000@hub.org>
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>>> "Marc G. Fournier" said: > On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > fdisk/disklabel Pretty lame if you ask me -- perhaps we should required > > FreeBSD to be booted by IBM Punch Cards.... > > > > I've taken the sysinstall code, pulled everything out of it > that I figured I could safely take out, and left in the Partition and > Label Disk options of the "Custom" menu and recompiled it. It seems to > work, but won't know for sure until tomorrow, or the next day, when I > get a new drive to test it on. > > At least you don't have to look for it before using it...and > you don't get the false sense that you have to install the operating > system to add a disk. > > I'm not much good at those Copyright notices, so unless I get > explicit permission (or instructions) on distributing my "hack" from > Jordan...its going to have to stay "in house"...which is more a hint/hope > that Jordan will send me email since I don't know who he is, and there > is no email address apparent in the code... > Gosh, don't forget to file a patent --- I wish I was kidding :) Good Job!!! Amancio
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