From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 2 11:11:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (ns.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9820C37B71B; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:11:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (root@vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.112]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f22JBDa07992; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:11:15 +0200 Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f22JBAN65268; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:11:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A9FF04D.1E4ABDF9@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 21:11:09 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Labeling Vinum partitions in the sysinstall(8) [patch] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > On 02-Mar-01 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm currently creating a Vinum(4) configuration wizard for sysinstall(8), > > which > > would simplify Vinum configuration procedure for the vinum newbies. So far I > > finished a patch that allows create vinum partitions using sysinstall's > > disklabel editor and would like to commit it. Please review attached patches. > > Heh, I wrote http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/sysinstall.vinum.patch > probably a year ago now, but because it only changes the disklabel editor and > doesn't add a full vinum configurator the patch was rejected. :-/ Hopefully > you will have better luck than I did... I hope so, because it greatly simplifies the task even without a full vinum configurator (as I said I'm working on it as well). Yeah, I know that disklabel(8) is cool, but it is not very intuitive and easy to use tool, especially for GUI-pampered win32 converts. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message