From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 17:25:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03749 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@ppp-24-225.tidalwave.net [208.220.24.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03609 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:24:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA00604; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:24:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lee) Message-ID: <19980127202407.64490@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:24:07 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) Reply-To: lcremean@tidalwave.net References: <26477.885937958@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzpiur579zq=2Efsf=40hrotti=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav_on_Wed=2C_Jan_28=2C_1998_at?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_12=3A50=3A01AM_+0100?= X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 12:50:01AM +0100, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Personally, I rather like the disk partitioner / label editor. Is > anyone fundamentally opposed to extracting it from sysinstall and > making a standalone utility of it? No opposition here; in fact, this is something whose time has come. fdisk(8) sucks, to put it bluntly, and disklabel -e isn't as smooth as it could be. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code