From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 26 02:42:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA26417 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 02:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA26361 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 02:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fhackers@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA02911; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:06:08 GMT Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:06:08 GMT Message-Id: <199606252306.XAA02911@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: (message from Brandon Gillespie on Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:51:11 -0600 (MDT)) Subject: Re: Utility for adding a disk... Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Brandon Gillespie writes: > > 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..? Actually I did this a couple of weeks ago, only to find that Jordan's latest version of sysinstall allowed you to do this through command-line arguments. I didn't see the point in duplicating his work so I gave up on it; in any case I wasn't totally confident about my changes, and didn't have any way of testing it myself (although several people kindly offered to try it out). I don't even have the code now, as my disk with -current on died over the weekend 8-( -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk