From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 20 07:55:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA14818 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 07:55:13 -0800 Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA14811 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 07:55:07 -0800 Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Mon, 20 Nov 95 15:55 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA22333; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:28:13 +0100 Message-Id: <199511201528.QAA22333@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:28:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 19, 95 12:29:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 742 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Marc G. Fournier writes: > > Actually, the user interface itself is perfect, if it wasn't > hidden inside the Installation interface, and required you to commit > to an install in order for it to add your drive... Yes, that's the way I'd do it too. It doesn't seem to be too much trouble to tear the disk stuff out and make a standalone program that didn't also try to install software on it. > ...and, as to "what everybody else is using"...as you mention > below...how many ppl know about the "wizard" mode that is in 2.0.5's > sysinstall? I found out about it in IRC last night, chatting with > Gary and a few others... Well, I still don't know what it is. Anybody care to tell us, or do you have to be a wizard for that? Greg