From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 12:44:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDEA37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849CF43FBF for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:44:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h37JiF56052139; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:44:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3E91D511.1000707@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:44:17 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert References: <20030407153600.GA51613@netpublishing.com> <3E91A265.1020906@centtech.com> <20030407140012.A77600@blackhelicopters.org> <3E91CD6C.4B787365@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org cc: "Gregory A. Gilliss" Subject: Re: Look what a mess I made (was Brilliant and very useful...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 19:44:46 -0000 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------