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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
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Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released?
To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:59:51 -0800 (PST)
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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

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