From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 19 19:29:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA03326 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 19:29:49 -0800 Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (news@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA03319 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 19:29:10 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (sendmail) id LAA12455 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:28:46 +0800 (WST) Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: 20 Nov 1995 11:28:41 +0800 From: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: <48osl9$c53$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: , <199511200003.BAA14638@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: [...] >sysinstall and libdisk are an entirely different thing. But believe >it or not, all of us still use the terrible interface, except for a >fresh installation... I dont.. :-) I've used /stand/sysinstall on a number of occasions to prep and partition new disks. I dont remember the specifics though, but it involves using wizard mode and manually mkfs'ing. I believe 2.1 has changed sysinstall in this area a little. -Peter