From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 12 16:28:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13848 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 16:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA13843 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 16:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA04318 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 16:28:45 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ao08091; 12 Jun 96 23:24 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa07939; 12 Jun 96 23:49 +0100 Received: (from fhackers@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA08850; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:59:19 GMT Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:59:19 GMT Message-Id: <199606121959.TAA08850@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: jkh@time.cdrom.com CC: taob@io.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <1159.834590360@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: Any remaining installation wish-list items out there? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 Blimey! I never knew it could do that. (That's the second time today! Not secretly writing a replacement for Emacs, are you? 8-) > 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. I put in a -fake (I'm bold, but not quite that bold, at least not without a spare disk!) and got "You must partition the disk(s) before this option can be used." at the commit stage. (It's already partitioned, BTW and I entered all the mount points in the label editor). I also got an error message when it tried and failed to mount a CDROM I had in the drive... > 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. Hmm. I took out the "what kind of MBR do you want" dialogue as presumably they've already got one on their first disk. And I didn't get the failed CD mount as I stripped out all the CD and networking code... Apart from that, though, I can't claim that what I've got is any better. And the point about surgery is well taken - the patient is still looking rather green about the gills! 8-) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG