Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:59:51 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mrl@teleport.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? Message-ID: <199603080159.RAA13621@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960307092829.8317A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Mar 7, 96 09:32:12 am
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> > 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. > > 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. I'm in very strong agreement with this sentiment!! The fact that MS-DOS has a better fdisk program than FreeBSD is shameful. While we're at it, how about integrating the booteasy functionality? Personally, I miss Linux's LILO very much. Well, actually I still use it instead of booteasy. OK, it's easy to *ask* for things... :-) -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com
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