Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 02:03:27 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Message-ID: <5280.827316207@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:07:19 PST." <199603200107.RAA16306@kachina.jetcafe.org>
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> (I'm really pissed, so I probably shouldn't be sending this. I'll > try not to flame, no promises though.) > > *Why* the hell is adding a 2nd disk to a currently running OS Guru > level lore? Because few people work with us to make it turnkey. > It should be a turnkey operation like it is on other UNIX. I await your code. > Searching the archives and the docs produces *no* useful information, > other than the fact that this is a FAQ and no one seems to answer it. I await your text. > So to summarize: WHY ISN'T THIS EASIER and WHAT CAN SOMEONE DO > TO MAKE IT EASIER. You can help me to rewrite sysinstall (look at the sources first though, I don't want to have to walk you through it step by step) so that it's more usable as a stand-alone tool. You can help to rewrite the documentation so that it presents this information in a clearer fashion. In other words, things get better around here because PEOPLE MAKE THEM BETTER. That's what a volunteer group like this is all about, and if you think that there's some magic wellspring of effort that can be tapped every time someone sends us a flame like this then you're very much mistaken. Most of our most useful features came out of someone like yourself being frustrated by something AND DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. We know things are broken, and the lack of good disk-frobbing tools has been a topic of discussion for only, oh, about 2 years now. Unfortunately, most people feel that complaining about it is enough, not actually doing anything substantive to improve it for the end-user. I can only hope that there's a special help desk in hell for such people where they're forced to answer Win95 questions from sewing machine operators for all eternity. Jordan
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