From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 20:26:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629561065672 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0257C8FC19 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:26:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p8TKQ2Vw014807; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:26:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id p8TKQ2M9014804; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:26:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:26:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-902635197-1628050217-1317327962=:14509" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:26:02 -0600 (MDT) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdinstall partition editor Handbook chapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:26:03 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---902635197-1628050217-1317327962=:14509 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> Hello.  I'm sending you this because your name is in comments in the >> Handbook's bsdinstall chapter as "hopefully will be rewriting" the >> Allocating Disk Space section.  That's in Glen Barber's repository at >> >>  http://code.google.com/p/freebsd9-documentation/source/list >> >> I'm hoping you haven't done that, because I got stupid and motivated (rarely >> a good combination) and slapped together a preliminary version of a >> replacement section. >> >> If you have already done work on it, I apologize, and maybe some of the >> stuff I've done can be reused. > > I've been swamped enough that I haven't had an opportunity to work > on it... but I have screenshots that you could use if you like (I've > been saying I'll post them for a while, but I'll really post them > tonight). > I'd be more than happy to review the directions -- especially the > shell one because there are some caveats that you have to watch out > for. By happy coincidence, mine mentions the shell interface but doesn't go into it. Didn't think there were any catches, but maybe kern.geom.debugflags and other settings are not already done. I made a bunch of screenshots, but only used a few. A quick hack of just the bsdinstall chapter is temporarily at http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/freebsd9/book.html Please ignore the missing stylesheets and sections that haven't been updated yet. Also, I've only worked on the Pre-Installation and Allocating Disk Space sections so far. ---902635197-1628050217-1317327962=:14509--