From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 24 14:16:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27590 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 14:16:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA27578 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 14:16:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA00102 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 20:51:46 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA29511 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 19:51:45 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id SAA04465 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 18:55:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603241755.SAA04465@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [was/is: adding 2nd disk] little changes to sysinstall/Makefile To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 18:55:06 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Klemm" at Mar 24, 96 02:56:12 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andreas Klemm wrote: > In order to get my 2nd disk labeled properly I tried to fiddle around > with sysinstall a bit. Well, i'm not yet convinced that sysinstall should be tweaked to allow this. It's already a rather complex creation. I'm ``hacking around'' on an fdisk(8) replacement right now, using libdisk. I won't mind it if somebody else would come up with another / a better / an earlier approach, it's just that i'm tired of answering this question too many times in Usenet. If something else comes up earlier, or is better, i'll happily through away my work. (I wrote `fdisk', though this tool will most likely also include the disklabel functionality.) > And for all of you who said "buh baeh", disklabel is outdated stuff, > when I tried to help the user, who first asked ... HOW do YOU get > a perfect disklabel for a 2nd disk, without using a proper disktab > entry ???? Which hacked up -current are you using ?! :-(( You can already use ``disklabel -Brw sd1 auto'' with a -current disklabel(8), if all you want is a ``dangerously dedicated'' disk. This doesn't require a disktab entry, instead creates a template itself. You can subsequently use ``disklabel -e'' to create the partitions. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)