From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 25 12:07:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29525 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29519 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA00421; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:06:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606251906.MAA00421@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Utility for adding a disk... To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:06:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brandon Gillespie" at Jun 25, 96 11:51:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.