Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:44:17 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss@netpublishing.com> Subject: Re: Look what a mess I made (was Brilliant and very useful...) Message-ID: <3E91D511.1000707@centtech.com> References: <20030407153600.GA51613@netpublishing.com> <3E91A265.1020906@centtech.com> <20030407140012.A77600@blackhelicopters.org> <3E91CD6C.4B787365@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > "Michael W . Lucas" wrote: > >>On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:08:05AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: >> >>>Now, all I need is to figure out how to tweak sysinstall and add some >>>"newbie" features that "do it all".. maybe a committer that knows the >>>sysinstall gunk will see this.. >> >>We're all afraid of sysinstall. Sysinstall has eaten up any number of >>developers and spit out their steaming bones. >> >>Seriously, patches are welcome. Please. > > > Start with the author's "non-negotiable request #6", and realize > that you have to provide "Boot Magic" and "Partition Magic" > functionality, for free, and that even "Boot Magic" can't grok > the NTFS on Windows XP, and you have to add a small (33M) FAT > partition, which you have to tell it is going to be booted from, > and then you still need something that can resize and relocate > an NTFS, like the most recent version of "Partition Magic". > > Now realize that this operation can't be scripted, even if you > license these tools themselves, from the vendor. > > PS: If people knew enough to be abe to rewrite the NTFS log > files that they could resize an NTFS, without having to license > code from Microsoft, don't you think NTFS would be mountable > R/W in FreeBSD and Linux, without the restriction that you can > only rewrite the contents of files, without resizin them, and > without maintaining POSIX timestamps properly? Huh? I thought we were talking about adding some functionality to sysinstall.. What did I miss? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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