From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 26 22:50:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA07624 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:50:15 -0700 Received: from whisker.internet-eireann.ie (whisker.internet-eireann.ie [194.9.34.204]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA07617 ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:50:09 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whisker.internet-eireann.ie (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA05999; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 06:50:40 +0100 To: Volker Paepcke cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:28:30 +0200." <199506261828.UAA21470@vulcan.franken.de> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 06:50:39 +0100 Message-ID: <5997.804232239@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > A probably better solution would be to let booteasy announce > partitions with sysid 164 as FreeBSD partitions too. After choosing > the boot partition the sysids on all FreeBSD partitions will be set to Hmmm. I think I'll let Serge comment on that.. :-) > BTW, the sysinstall procedure is VERY, VERY nice, although I'd like > some more "hacker" functions like labeling the disks step by step and > the possibility to recover a previously saved system (e.g. with dump) > from tape. To do this I only need to label the disk, run newfs and get > a /bin/sh to run restore manually to load the data from tape. I won't > need a fixit floppy anymore if I could do all this with one great boot > floppy :-) I do have features like that very much in mind! I don't know if I'll get "dump" on there, but I could at least let you restore from a (possibly multi-volume) tar tape. That wouldn't be too bad of an interim solution while I think about it some more. Maybe in 2.1! :) Thanks.. Jordan