From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 19:41:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29260 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:41:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29225 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA05553; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma005551; Tue Jan 27 19:40:50 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id TAA22097; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:40:49 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199801280340.TAA22097@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) In-Reply-To: <29104.885957158@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 27, 98 07:12:38 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:40:49 -0800 (PST) Cc: archie@whistle.com, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > Please! The current ways to add/modify disks are stoneage. > > Even MS-DOS has a better partition editor than FreeBSD. > > Hey, I've seen you do some pretty slick stuff with the C language, > Archie, how about convincing Whistle that you need to spend a little > time helping us with this, eh? :-) I would, except we already did that :-) Actually I wrote a program that fdisks and disklabels a disk based on reading a config file that specifies the partitions.. it's based on sysinstall and using libdisk. It might make for a good starting point.. I'd be happy to share it with anyone whose interested. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com