From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 19 23:15:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07165 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [206.28.134.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07156 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlanta (mfd-dial2-4.cybercom.net [206.28.134.68]) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA06631 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:15:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970420061502.006fa5b0@cybercom.net> X-Sender: ksmm@cybercom.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:15:02 -0400 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:41 PM 4/19/97 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >Heck, I'd be happy to try to rewrite the whole fdisk/disklabel junk >into a nice, easy to use script. sysinstall is OK, but it isn't as >nice as I'd like. Is there a need for this, or are people generally >happy with the tools we have? > Oh, please, please, rewrite it! You'd have my gratitude! :-) If FreeBSD's installation and, more importantly, configuration procedure (e.g., kernel re-compilation, XFree86 setup, PPP dialup, etc.) could be simplified, it would be well on its way to increasing its growth rate. K.S. PS -- In defense of Microsoft's 32-bit Windows installations, I think that if FreeBSD were supporting as much legacy hardware in a Plug-and-Play fasion as Windows, it would crash a few systems during auto-detection, too.