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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:32:05 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        gpalmer@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk
Message-ID:  <199603210132.MAA12027@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> The disktab should go.

>So how do you want to deal with the automatic generation of floppies
>during ``make release''? It sure as **** shouldn't be ``interactively
>determined''. Sure, kill disktab for hard drive use, but I say keep it
>(perhaps in a ``cut down'' format) for floppies.

	$generate_disklabel |
	sed 's/defaults/preferences/' |
	disklabel -R /dev/rfd0 /dev/stdin

where $generate_disklabel is either `cat <<EOF...' (to embed the
defaults in the script) or the output of `disklabel /dev/rfd0'
(all disks should have at least a dummy label; this is automatic
for drivers that use the slice interface).

Bruce



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