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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:06:56 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Utility for adding a disk...
Message-ID:  <199606251906.MAA00421@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960625114442.1990A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Jun 25, 96 11:51:11 am

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> I'm bringing up this overly beat topic again partially out of 
> frustration.  The sysinstall utility has the mechanisms needed for 
> installing a disk, but they will NOT DO ANYTHING unless you actually 
> install SOMETHING, which I do not want to do.  I realize there have been 
> a few attempts at creating a utility for simply adding a disk, but they 
> seem to have all faltered and disappeared.  What I am wondering is if it 
> would be possible to simply shag various portions of sysinstall to create 
> a diskinstall?  Just include the Partion, Label and commit steps, and 
> have it merge with an existing fstab when it commits..?  I am a 
> software-inclined person (PC at its best ;) and unfortunately I do not 
> have the hardware experience to grunt out adding a disk.  Right now it 
> seems to be not only an extreme guru task, but it also requires a touch 
> of dietism in the mystical workings of hardware and filesystems..

1)	Get DEVFS rolled in as *the* default.  Get rid of specfs
	entirely.

2)	I will write the rest.  It's trivial, and it's orthoganal.  The
	same utility will work for partitioning, disklabelling, etc..


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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