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From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released?
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On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> I'd like to see the code differential from 2.1.0 to 2.1.5 be the same
> as the code differential between 2.0.5 and 2.1.0.
> 
> We've already established the value of a 0.0.5 increment.
> 
> What I think the improvements you noted represent is ~0.0.1 compared
> to the increment change for 2.1.0.
> 
> I think a 2.1.5 would have to include fixes to the install process
> (without breaking gzip image loading).
> 
> I think a 2.2.0 would need to include the PCMCIA support and the
> 4.4BSD-Lite2 integration, which were announced for it.
> 
> Just my opinions, though...
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org

I think what we need for 2.1.5 is a stand-alone version of the 
fdisk/partition utility from /stand/sysinstall.  I never did master the 
concept of poking magic numbers into /etc/format.dat and our heinous 
command-line fdisk utilities.  I thought somebody had done a code drop of 
this into a stand-alone program some time ago.  What ever happened to 
that?  I wouldn't mind if /stand/sysinstall was hacked to allow 
fdisk/partition/formatting WITHOUT having to pretend we are reinstalling 
the operating system.  If it is a standalone, I suggest "format" as the 
name, since that meshes with what SunOS/Solaris uses.  Comments???  I 
think this is _very_ important for the next release, and not 
very difficult to do.

---Jake