Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:52:47 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot.foo madness Message-ID: <199707211552.BAA19147@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>The files should be installed into /usr/mdec along with the >prototypical bootblocks, and written to the 'a' partition of the disk >being labelled by 'disklabel -B' and anything that purports to be >compatible with it, if they are not already there. Possibly an Certainly not. disklabel(8) writes boot blocks; it has no knowledge file systems. Whatever writes the files has to handle the following cases: - bare disk with no file system: optionally newfs the file system to reduce to the next case - disk with file system: optionally fsck and mount it to reduce to the next case; later unmount it. - mounted file system: just install -C the help file and write whatever is necessary to the config files (nothing by default). Bruce
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