Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 07:39:20 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: James Raynard <fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: taob@io.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any remaining installation wish-list items out there? Message-ID: <1159.834590360@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:07:46 GMT." <199606120107.BAA00958@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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> Changing the subject slightly, did anyone ever get around to sorting > out a utility for adding an extra disk to an installed system? Hmmmm. Well, if you can manage to access a copy of sysinstall that's fairly recent, let me know if: sysinstall diskPartitionEditor and sysinstall diskLabelEditor Seem to meet your criteria. If you're feeling very bold, you can try: sysinstall diskPartitionEditor diskLabelEditor diskLabelCommit and combine the operations into a short tour. If you think this approach has potential (and avoiding brutal and risky surgery is always generally a good thing :-) then let me know how/if you'd see it improved upon. Jordan > > I've performed some rather brutal surgery on sysinstall and managed to > cut out practically everything that's not related to configuring > disks; what's left compiles and (as far as I can tell from some very > cautious testing on my only disk) looks as though it can > fdisk/disklabel without doing anything harmful. > > However, I think I've gone about as far as I can with my limited setup > and it really needs someone with a spare disk (or even better, a spare > machine) to knock it into shape. The main things that need doing are > adding some code to newfs the disk, re-write the menus and of course > give it a thorough testing. I don't think it would be very difficult > to finish it off (and earn the eternal gratitude of multitudes of > FreeBSD users 8-) > > Anyone interested? > > -- > James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland > james@jraynard.demon.co.uk > jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG >
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