From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 17 00:17:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA28894 for current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA28886 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA00356; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:17:44 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA06765; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 09:29:09 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970615092909.IU50309@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 09:29:09 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: staylor@mrynet.com (Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor) Subject: Re: Easier diskpart? (a la sysinstall) References: <199706082336.QAA00381@mrynet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706082336.QAA00381@mrynet.com>; from Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor on Jun 8, 1997 16:36:08 +0000 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor wrote: > I REALLY would like to be able to do disk partitioning (diskpart(8)) > in the same way sysinstall handles it (i.e. specifying the partition's > sizes or cylinders). > > Is such a program hiding, or has anyone written this yet? /stand/sysinstall? :) Hellmuth Michaelis once wrote a menu program, and dropped it somewhere on freefall (now hub), but i eventually forgot the name, and i think he's currently not online. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)