Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:43:05 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'Matthew Seaman'" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Different sysinstall labelling behaviour when run post-install vs. during install? Message-ID: <000a01c4767e$358a27e0$132a15ac@spud> In-Reply-To: <20040730095130.GB1956@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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> From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk] > > > How do I manually specify or change the partition letter to use? > > Don't use sysinstall(8). sysinstall is like the training wheels > children use when learning to ride a bike: essential in the beginning, > but once they've achieved some proficiency, the training wheels just > get in the way. <Reread the man page> The last time I used disklabel was on a 4.2-R system. That nasty little creature required you to calculate sector counts and offsets by hand and hope it didn't barf with errors about c not covering the entire disk or partition overlaps, despite your calculations indicating otherwise. It's nice to see it has evolved a bit since then.
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