From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 21:42:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22844 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:42:39 -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 VAA22778 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:42:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA06345; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:41:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma006343; Tue Jan 27 21:41:18 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id VAA22967; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:41:18 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199801280541.VAA22967@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) In-Reply-To: <29424.885961335@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 27, 98 08:22:15 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:41:18 -0800 (PST) Cc: 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: > > 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. > > Decoupling the two tasks entirely is also something I've > considered. :) I'd be interested in seeing your approach here. Have at it :-) ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/diskburn/diskburn.tgz Disclaimer: this is a "UTSL" release only... -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com