In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" writes:
: > sysinstall doesn't work at all for me. On three different machines,
: > it tells me that it found no disks. So I can't comment on this.
:
: Every time that happens to me, I just build and install a new sysinstall
: on that machine and a
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
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> sysinstall doesn't work at all for me. On three different machines,
> it tells me that it found no disks. So I can't comment on this.
Every time that happens to me, I just build and install a new sysinstall
on that machine and al
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jonathan Smith
writes:
: Just a penny and a half...
Hmmm. Maybe in the featuritis phase of development I may add this.
Right now there's no way to give a mount point...
Warner
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> It is about 1000x easier to use than sysinstall. One simple command,
> and you are good to go. It won't add anything to /etc/fstab, but I
> consider that to be a feature.
>
For what it's worth, one man's feature is another man's, er, wait, isn't
that treasure? Never mind. Point being, m
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sheldon Hearn writes:
: As an aside, 4.0-RELEASE's sysinstall looks set to kick ass in this
: area. Of course, your solution will provide something more useful for
: folks who don't want to interact with anything after typing the command.
: Well, it will once it tak
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:45:36 MST, Warner Losh wrote:
> Please let me know how this works. I'd like to see this in FreeBSD in
> the fullness of time. It will be a useful tool and end a lot of the
> frustration I've seen in connection with the setting up of disks.
As an aside, 4.0-RELEASE's sy
OK. I've written a simple diskprep program. It will take a disk, put
slice information (fdisk) and partition information (disklabel) onto
the disk. By default, it will create one slice (1) and one partition
on that (a). It will also newfs all partitions that are on the disk.
It supports readi
