From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 21 18: 5:37 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from bsdone.bsdwins.com (www.bsdwins.com [192.58.184.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FB237B400; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:05:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jwd@localhost) by bsdone.bsdwins.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0M23cw04707; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:03:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jwd) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:03:38 -0500 From: "John W. De Boskey" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Valentin Nechayev , John Baldwin , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile Message-ID: <20010121210338.A4447@bsdwins.com> References: <200101191301.PAQ80768@burka.carrier.kiev.ua> <20010119052823.A7240@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010119052823.A7240@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:28:23AM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A few comments below.. ----- Alfred Perlstein's Original Message ----- > * Dag-Erling Smorgrav [010119 05:18] wrote: > > netch@carrier.kiev.ua (Valentin Nechayev) writes: > > > sysinstall is extremely valuable to fix system in cases when it is damaged. > > > > Not really. Except for beginning users, I don't see a use for > > sysinstall once installation is complete. > > I usually try to be manly and use fdisk+disklabel+newfs to setup > a new disk, lately I've been more successful at it, but it sure is > a lot less fun that just getting it done in under a minute with > sysinstall. I almost never use sysinstall... fdisk is simple to use. newfs is simply to use. disklabel is a pain if you want to break a disk up into more than two partitions (at least for me). Given that the label editor seems to really be in question here, what if we allowed a form similar to the following: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 512m 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # b: 512m 524288 swap # c: 4192902 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 260*) e: 1g 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # f: -1 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # Where we auto calculate offsets, and the size of the partition with size -1 is the 'rest' of the disk? Except for the interactiveness of sysinstall, it's basically what sysinstall is doing. Also, the info in the handbook is rather small... A nice webpage with good examples would be worth many hours of email discussion over what the best way to do this interactively is. > It's too bad that sysinstall's diskeditor isn't a standalone program. -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message