Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951120220254.8172A-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199511210301.TAA12703@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > fdisk/disklabel Pretty lame if you ask me -- perhaps we should required > FreeBSD to be booted by IBM Punch Cards.... > I've taken the sysinstall code, pulled everything out of it that I figured I could safely take out, and left in the Partition and Label Disk options of the "Custom" menu and recompiled it. It seems to work, but won't know for sure until tomorrow, or the next day, when I get a new drive to test it on. At least you don't have to look for it before using it...and you don't get the false sense that you have to install the operating system to add a disk. I'm not much good at those Copyright notices, so unless I get explicit permission (or instructions) on distributing my "hack" from Jordan...its going to have to stay "in house"...which is more a hint/hope that Jordan will send me email since I don't know who he is, and there is no email address apparent in the code... Marc G. Fournier | Knowledge, Information and Communications, Inc (ki.net) scrappy@hub.org | soon to be: | scrappy@ki.net | For more information, send me email.
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