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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint 
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 21:10:06 -0800
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> "Marc G. Fournier" said:
 > 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...
 > 
Gosh, don't forget to file a patent --- I wish I was kidding :)

	Good Job!!!
	Amancio