Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:47:40 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/disktab and stuff Message-ID: <7762.809830060@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:35:23 PDT." <199508310035.RAA01381@ref.tfs.com>
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> I have to side with rod on this... > dding a crucially missing item in sysinstall is ok.. > (could be considered a bugfix) > rewriting it is a bad idea.. I'm not re-writing it so much as "reshuffling" it so that people have the option of doing various things "atomically" rather than in one unbreakable sequence. It will also let you skip all the fdisk/disklabel questions and just figure out (very conservative!) defaults on its own in "express" mode, helping those who were terminally confused by the previous "you must understand slices or die!" system. > bringing in a new editor is a bad idea, (unless the old one is still there) People kinda missed the point of that one. Rather than put vi on the boot floppy, where it only eats tons-o-space and is used once to toss the unsuspecting user into an empty /etc/exports file (that was real bright, that one!), I was going to put ee on there to take up far less space and also give the user some idea as to how to USE the damn editor. vi itself hasn't gone anywhere, it's just not being [mis]tasked for this purpose.. Jordan
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