From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 20 12:31:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA01609 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:31:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA01604 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:31:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id VAA25536; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:00:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA25672; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:36:28 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:36:27 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Jerry Kendall cc: Dave Hayes , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk In-Reply-To: <96Mar20.094540est.18436-1@janus.border.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Jerry Kendall wrote: > A few weeks ago, actually, a few months ago, I started to create a utility > that I named 'diskmaint' that currently will 'fdisk' a hard disk. I am > about 50% done the part that will 'disklabel'. That sounds great. Does your utility also create missing /dev/entries for harddisks ? Just a question ... > what remains is the ability > to 'newfs' the partitions. I have been doing it undex 'X' using the > xforms library. A lot of people bitched about the 'xforms' aspect so > I slowed down on the rush. This has the added affect of pissing some > people off. people ... ;-) > BUT, as a few others have said in reply to this message, > it IS a 'develop the toys as needed' environment. I will finish it. That's very fine, thanks ! > Perhaps I MAY be inclined to create a 'text' mode version for those > snotty peoply that sent me 'flames'. Well, I can understand, that many people don't use X and would have liked to see a text only version for obvious reason. But it's not a reason to write a flame ... > But for now I will finish the xforms version. Thanks, that you still work on this... I had made similar experiences with apsfilter. It finished, that I throw him out of my mailfoder by "written (dark, cloudy) voice" ;-) > In the mean time I am willing to chat directly with you to help you > get past this problem... Is this satisfactory ??? Well, see my mail, maybe it helped him... -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< "Ich bleibe bei der Aussage und trotze den Flames. :-)" Ulli Horlacher 02/96