From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 14:29:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75FD637B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6ALTGT98153; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:29:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:29:16 -0700 From: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG To: Bill Moran Cc: Wes Peters , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010710142916.B97675@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <3B4A7D9C.A64230D9@softweyr.com> <3B4B07DE.4801D208@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B4B07DE.4801D208@iowna.com>; from wmoran@iowna.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:49:18AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:49:18AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Now, I've never used partition magic, but I (personally) find the > FreeBSD > partition program in sysinstall to be the easiest one I've ever used. > What should be changed to make it easier? Maybe not "easier" but better: + Allow one to specify the partition letter, than assumeing `e'. + Allow one to specify the ordering of partitions that will be written. Alpha users keep getting bit in the ass because sysinstall orders the swap partition at the begining of the disk vs. after /. One cannot tell which order the partitions will be written to disk. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message