Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 14:06:15 +0200 From: hafner@suncog2 (Walter Hafner) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: hafner@forwiss Subject: install menu [was: Re: fdisk update, background NFS mounting?] Message-ID: <9508241206.AA02224@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: kallio@jyu.fi's message of 24 Aug 1995 08:34:09 %2B0200 References: <v0153052cac61caddf4f7@[130.234.41.39]>
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Seppo wrote: > At 15:17 23/8/95, Charles N. Owens wrote: >> Hi all, >> For anyone interested, I was able to get my 4 gig scsi drive going. I >> couldn't get fdisk to do it's thing (at least as far as I could tell), so >> instead I simply booted from the install floppy and did a minimal install >> on the the new drive. Worked like a charm. It is a bit of a kludgy way >> to go, though. Why can't we have a utility that has the brains of sysinstall >> that shields us from the fdisk and disklabel yuckiness? > Oh boys and girls! Some other soul has seen these problems also! > Yes, I did try this "install way" of disk init also. It did work. And it > would be quite nice IF the install would not insist to load something form > net into the root partition. That is W (Write) command is missing from > disklabel/fdisk screen. It is writing dikslabel+fdisk info after you start > installing software (the "confirm" must be accepted). What I'd like to see is a new item in the installation menu: * install kernel sources Like most of us I happen to recompile the kernel every now and then. Up to now there are two ways to put the kernel sources on disk: 1) install all sources and delete the non-kernel sources and 2) unpack ssys* by hand. Both of them are not very user-friendly. And I think (without looking at the install-sources :-) ) that a new menu item is just a few minutes work ... -Walter
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