From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 1 23:48:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373961065672 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BDF8FC08 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DE2E7207; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:48:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from unknown (client-81-107-141-216.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [81.107.141.216]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:48:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:48:24 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Devin Teske Message-ID: <20101101234824.00007f5f@unknown> In-Reply-To: <1288627455.6744.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20101031200258.GA1302@tiny.Sisis.de> <1288627455.6744.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:48:22 -0000 On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:04:15 -0700 Devin Teske wrote: > I'll be the first to admit that sysinstall(8) could be a little easier > to use in the userland. It should be noted that sade(8) (System > Administrator's Disk Editor) is no different -- sade, at this point at > least, is nothing more than the `Partition' and `Label' menus ripped > straight from sysinstall(8)'s `Custom' menu (with some minor other > differences, like the fact that the Ctrl-C menu doesn't work whereas > it does in sysinstall(8) -- really ought to file a PR on that one). There's a new version of sade being worked on by ae@ in svn /user/ae that fixes lots of the problems. With pc-sysinstall getting all the attention I doubt sysinstall will have any more work done on it. -- Bruce Cran